How Investar Holding Corporation stacks up

ISTR · against 851 other Banks & Insurance companies

Growth

39/ 100

Below the middle of the pack.

Ranked #516 of 852 · scores higher than 39% of peers

Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the growth score

85 peers with a growth score of 30–39, including ISTR · Click a bar to see the companies

Why growth scores 39?

Weighted metrics compared with all Banks & Insurance companies.

Mainly because of its earnings per share growth, which is weaker than most Banks & Insurance peers.

slower growth in earnings per share: weaker than 61% of peers. Earnings per share growth: 7.6% vs peer median 16.0%

Metric by metric

Position: dot = ISTR, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.

Metric	ISTR	Peer median	Better than	Weight
Revenue growthHigher is better · 930 reported	7.1%	8.7%	45%	Context only
Earnings per share growthHigher is better · 829 reported	7.6%	16.0%	39%	100%
3-year revenue growthHigher is better · 905 reported	-3.8%	8.3%	6%	Context only

Metrics with no weight are context only: for banks, brokers and insurers, free cash flow, EBITDA, gross margin and current ratio mostly reflect trading and funding flows, not the health of the business.

Ranking by growth score

Top 5 and the companies ranked around ISTR

Rank	Company	Market cap	Growth	Overall
1	China Taiping Insurance Holdings Company Limited0966.HK · Hong Kong	64.2B HKD (≈$8.2B)	95	91
1	CMBC Capital Holdings Limited1141.HK · Hong Kong	689M HKD (≈$88M)	95	90
1	Guolian Minsheng Securities Co., Ltd.1456.HK · Hong Kong	34.9B HKD (≈$4.5B)	95
1	Guotai Junan International Holdings Limited1788.HK · Hong Kong	28.2B HKD (≈$3.6B)	95	50
1	Tune Protect Group Berhad5230.KL · Southeast Asia	166M MYR (≈$36M)	95	82
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516	BNP Paribas SABNP.PA · Europe	96.0B EUR (≈$105.6B)	39	51
516	Commonwealth Bank of AustraliaCBA.AX · Australia & NZ	279.6B AUD (≈$184.5B)	39	33
516	First Mid Bancshares, Inc.FMBH · US-listed	1.4B USD	39	40
516	Hancock Whitney CorporationHWC · US-listed	5.8B USD	39	41
516	Investar Holding CorporationISTR · US-listed	385M USD	39	46
516	Union Bank of IndiaUNIONBANK.NS · India	1.40T INR (≈$16.8B)	39	63
516	Zuger KantonalbankZUGER.SW · Europe	3.3B CHF (≈$3.8B)	39	26
525	RHB Bank Berhad1066.KL · Southeast Asia	33.7B MYR (≈$7.4B)	38	51
525	Bank of Hangzhou Co., Ltd.600926.SS · China	121.9B CNY (≈$17.1B)	38	56

Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score

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