MTB vs. PNC, TFC, FCNCA, FITB, HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, and WBS
Should you be buying M&T Bank stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of M&T Bank include The PNC Financial Services Group (PNC), Truist Financial (TFC), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), and Webster Financial (WBS). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
M&T Bank (NYSE:MTB) and The PNC Financial Services Group (NYSE:PNC) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
M&T Bank presently has a consensus target price of $159.04, suggesting a potential upside of 8.32%. The PNC Financial Services Group has a consensus target price of $157.83, suggesting a potential upside of 1.25%. Given M&T Bank's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe M&T Bank is more favorable than The PNC Financial Services Group.
The PNC Financial Services Group has higher revenue and earnings than M&T Bank. M&T Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The PNC Financial Services Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, M&T Bank had 1 more articles in the media than The PNC Financial Services Group. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for M&T Bank and 11 mentions for The PNC Financial Services Group. M&T Bank's average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat The PNC Financial Services Group's score of 1.16 indicating that M&T Bank is being referred to more favorably in the media.
84.7% of M&T Bank shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.5% of The PNC Financial Services Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of M&T Bank shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of The PNC Financial Services Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
The PNC Financial Services Group received 588 more outperform votes than M&T Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.25% of users gave The PNC Financial Services Group an outperform vote while only 46.20% of users gave M&T Bank an outperform vote.
M&T Bank has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, The PNC Financial Services Group has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
M&T Bank has a net margin of 19.52% compared to The PNC Financial Services Group's net margin of 16.05%. The PNC Financial Services Group's return on equity of 11.64% beat M&T Bank's return on equity.
M&T Bank pays an annual dividend of $5.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. The PNC Financial Services Group pays an annual dividend of $6.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. M&T Bank pays out 36.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. The PNC Financial Services Group pays out 52.1% 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.
Summary
M&T Bank beats The PNC Financial Services Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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