VLY vs. UMBF, BANF, FNB, WSFS, FULT, CBU, BANC, ONB, SFNC, and FFBC
Should you be buying Valley National Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Valley National Bancorp include UMB Financial (UMBF), BancFirst (BANF), F.N.B. (FNB), WSFS Financial (WSFS), Fulton Financial (FULT), Community Bank System (CBU), Banc of California (BANC), Old National Bancorp (ONB), Simmons First National (SFNC), and First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
UMB Financial (NASDAQ:UMBF) and Valley National Bancorp (NASDAQ:VLY) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking and profitability.
UMB Financial currently has a consensus target price of $92.00, indicating a potential upside of 6.80%. Valley National Bancorp has a consensus target price of $9.33, indicating a potential upside of 17.85%. Given UMB Financial's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Valley National Bancorp is more favorable than UMB Financial.
UMB Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Valley National Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. UMB Financial pays out 20.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Valley National Bancorp pays out 51.8% 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. UMB Financial has increased its dividend for 31 consecutive years.
UMB Financial received 247 more outperform votes than Valley National Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 46.47% of users gave UMB Financial an outperform vote while only 23.88% of users gave Valley National Bancorp an outperform vote.
Valley National Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than UMB Financial. Valley National Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UMB Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
UMB Financial has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Valley National Bancorp has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
UMB Financial has a net margin of 14.59% compared to UMB Financial's net margin of 12.88%. Valley National Bancorp's return on equity of 14.30% beat UMB Financial's return on equity.
87.8% of UMB Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.0% of Valley National Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.9% of UMB Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Valley National Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, UMB Financial and UMB Financial both had 5 articles in the media. UMB Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Valley National Bancorp's score of 0.69 indicating that Valley National Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
UMB Financial beats Valley National Bancorp on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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