FITB vs. STT, NTRS, CFG, ALLY, PNC, TFC, FCNCA, MTB, HBAN, and RF
Should you be buying Fifth Third Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fifth Third Bancorp include State Street (STT), Northern Trust (NTRS), Citizens Financial Group (CFG), Ally Financial (ALLY), The PNC Financial Services Group (PNC), Truist Financial (TFC), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), M&T Bank (MTB), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), and Regions Financial (RF). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
State Street (NYSE:STT) and Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ:FITB) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
State Street currently has a consensus target price of $84.04, suggesting a potential upside of 12.41%. Fifth Third Bancorp has a consensus target price of $36.86, suggesting a potential upside of 2.02%. Given Fifth Third Bancorp's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe State Street is more favorable than Fifth Third Bancorp.
Fifth Third Bancorp received 79 more outperform votes than State Street when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.19% of users gave Fifth Third Bancorp an outperform vote while only 56.50% of users gave State Street an outperform vote.
Fifth Third Bancorp has a net margin of 17.70% compared to Fifth Third Bancorp's net margin of 9.62%. State Street's return on equity of 16.11% beat Fifth Third Bancorp's return on equity.
In the previous week, Fifth Third Bancorp had 4 more articles in the media than State Street. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Fifth Third Bancorp and 8 mentions for State Street. Fifth Third Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat State Street's score of 1.25 indicating that State Street is being referred to more favorably in the media.
87.4% of State Street shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.8% of Fifth Third Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of State Street shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Fifth Third Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
State Street pays an annual dividend of $2.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Fifth Third Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. State Street pays out 51.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fifth Third Bancorp pays out 44.4% 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. Fifth Third Bancorp has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years. Fifth Third Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Fifth Third Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than State Street. Fifth Third Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than State Street, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
State Street has a beta of 1.47, suggesting that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fifth Third Bancorp has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Fifth Third Bancorp beats State Street on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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