CBSH vs. PB, SSB, ALLY, FITB, FCNCA, MTB, HBAN, RF, KEY, and EWBC
Should you be buying Commerce Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Commerce Bancshares include Prosperity Bancshares (PB), SouthState (SSB), Ally Financial (ALLY), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), M&T Bank (MTB), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), and East West Bancorp (EWBC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Prosperity Bancshares (NYSE:PB) and Commerce Bancshares (NASDAQ:CBSH) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and dividends.
80.7% of Prosperity Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.3% of Commerce Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 4.3% of Prosperity Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of Commerce Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Prosperity Bancshares has a net margin of 24.50% compared to Prosperity Bancshares' net margin of 23.33%. Prosperity Bancshares' return on equity of 16.78% beat Commerce Bancshares' return on equity.
Prosperity Bancshares presently has a consensus price target of $68.86, indicating a potential upside of 16.15%. Commerce Bancshares has a consensus price target of $55.29, indicating a potential upside of 1.89%. Given Commerce Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Prosperity Bancshares is more favorable than Commerce Bancshares.
Commerce Bancshares has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Prosperity Bancshares. Prosperity Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Commerce Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Prosperity Bancshares received 14 more outperform votes than Commerce Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 47.54% of users gave Prosperity Bancshares an outperform vote while only 45.67% of users gave Commerce Bancshares an outperform vote.
Prosperity Bancshares has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Commerce Bancshares has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Prosperity Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $2.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Commerce Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Prosperity Bancshares pays out 51.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Commerce Bancshares pays out 30.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
In the previous week, Commerce Bancshares had 2 more articles in the media than Prosperity Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Commerce Bancshares and 5 mentions for Prosperity Bancshares. Prosperity Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat Commerce Bancshares' score of 0.85 indicating that Commerce Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Prosperity Bancshares beats Commerce Bancshares on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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