KEY vs. TFC, FCNCA, FITB, MTB, HBAN, RF, EWBC, FHN, WBS, and CBSH
Should you be buying KeyCorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of KeyCorp include Truist Financial (TFC), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), M&T Bank (MTB), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), Webster Financial (WBS), and Commerce Bancshares (CBSH). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Truist Financial (NYSE:TFC) and KeyCorp (NYSE:KEY) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, profitability, risk, media sentiment, dividends and community ranking.
KeyCorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Truist Financial. Truist Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than KeyCorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Truist Financial has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KeyCorp has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
71.3% of Truist Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.7% of KeyCorp shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Truist Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of KeyCorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
KeyCorp has a net margin of 7.53% compared to KeyCorp's net margin of -4.28%. KeyCorp's return on equity of 9.15% beat Truist Financial's return on equity.
Truist Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. KeyCorp pays an annual dividend of $0.82 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Truist Financial pays out -157.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. KeyCorp pays out 103.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Truist Financial has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years and KeyCorp has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years.
Truist Financial presently has a consensus price target of $43.17, indicating a potential upside of 14.37%. KeyCorp has a consensus price target of $16.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.76%. Given KeyCorp's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Truist Financial is more favorable than KeyCorp.
In the previous week, KeyCorp had 13 more articles in the media than Truist Financial. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for KeyCorp and 3 mentions for Truist Financial. Truist Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat KeyCorp's score of 0.33 indicating that KeyCorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
KeyCorp received 305 more outperform votes than Truist Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.77% of users gave KeyCorp an outperform vote while only 55.53% of users gave Truist Financial an outperform vote.
Summary
KeyCorp beats Truist Financial on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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