WAL vs. FITB, FCNCA, MTB, HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, WBS, and CBSH
Should you be buying Western Alliance Bancorporation stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Western Alliance Bancorporation include Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), M&T Bank (MTB), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), Webster Financial (WBS), and Commerce Bancshares (CBSH). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Western Alliance Bancorporation (NYSE:WAL) and Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ:FITB) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and dividends.
Fifth Third Bancorp has a net margin of 17.70% compared to Western Alliance Bancorporation's net margin of 16.50%. Fifth Third Bancorp's return on equity of 16.11% beat Western Alliance Bancorporation's return on equity.
Fifth Third Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Western Alliance Bancorporation. Western Alliance Bancorporation is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fifth Third Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Western Alliance Bancorporation has a beta of 1.46, meaning that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fifth Third Bancorp has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Western Alliance Bancorporation currently has a consensus target price of $72.47, suggesting a potential upside of 23.73%. Fifth Third Bancorp has a consensus target price of $37.21, suggesting a potential upside of 5.64%. Given Western Alliance Bancorporation's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Western Alliance Bancorporation is more favorable than Fifth Third Bancorp.
79.2% of Western Alliance Bancorporation shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.8% of Fifth Third Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.8% of Western Alliance Bancorporation 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 endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Western Alliance Bancorporation pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Fifth Third Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Western Alliance Bancorporation pays out 21.6% 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.
In the previous week, Fifth Third Bancorp had 11 more articles in the media than Western Alliance Bancorporation. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Fifth Third Bancorp and 7 mentions for Western Alliance Bancorporation. Western Alliance Bancorporation's average media sentiment score of 1.31 beat Fifth Third Bancorp's score of 0.89 indicating that Western Alliance Bancorporation is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Fifth Third Bancorp received 232 more outperform votes than Western Alliance Bancorporation when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.32% of users gave Western Alliance Bancorporation an outperform vote while only 57.10% of users gave Fifth Third Bancorp an outperform vote.
Summary
Fifth Third Bancorp beats Western Alliance Bancorporation on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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