PNFP vs. BOKF, ZION, SNV, CIT, HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, and WBS
Should you be buying Pinnacle Financial Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pinnacle Financial Partners include BOK Financial (BOKF), Zions Bancorporation, National Association (ZION), Synovus Financial (SNV), CIT Group (CIT), 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.
BOK Financial (NASDAQ:BOKF) and Pinnacle Financial Partners (NASDAQ:PNFP) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability and earnings.
BOK Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Pinnacle Financial Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. BOK Financial pays out 32.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pinnacle Financial Partners pays out 12.6% 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. BOK Financial has increased its dividend for 19 consecutive years. BOK Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
BOK Financial presently has a consensus target price of $97.10, indicating a potential upside of 8.73%. Pinnacle Financial Partners has a consensus target price of $94.63, indicating a potential upside of 23.71%. Given BOK Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Pinnacle Financial Partners is more favorable than BOK Financial.
Pinnacle Financial Partners has a net margin of 18.59% compared to Pinnacle Financial Partners' net margin of 13.93%. Pinnacle Financial Partners' return on equity of 10.52% beat BOK Financial's return on equity.
Pinnacle Financial Partners received 47 more outperform votes than BOK Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.66% of users gave Pinnacle Financial Partners an outperform vote while only 47.74% of users gave BOK Financial an outperform vote.
34.4% of BOK Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.4% of Pinnacle Financial Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 56.9% of BOK Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Pinnacle Financial Partners shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Pinnacle Financial Partners has lower revenue, but higher earnings than BOK Financial. Pinnacle Financial Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BOK Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, BOK Financial and BOK Financial both had 5 articles in the media. BOK Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.55 beat Pinnacle Financial Partners' score of 1.39 indicating that Pinnacle Financial Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BOK Financial has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pinnacle Financial Partners has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Pinnacle Financial Partners beats BOK Financial on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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