SHG vs. RF, KEY, HBAN, FHN, WBS, CFR, CMA, PNFP, ZION, and BOKF
Should you be buying Shinhan Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Shinhan Financial Group include Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), First Horizon (FHN), Webster Financial (WBS), Cullen/Frost Bankers (CFR), Comerica (CMA), Pinnacle Financial Partners (PNFP), Zions Bancorporation, National Association (ZION), and BOK Financial (BOKF). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
Regions Financial (NYSE:RF) and Shinhan Financial Group (NYSE:SHG) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
79.4% of Regions Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.8% of Shinhan Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Regions Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Shinhan Financial Group shares are owned by company 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.
Regions Financial has a net margin of 19.75% compared to Regions Financial's net margin of 12.68%. Shinhan Financial Group's return on equity of 13.28% beat Regions Financial's return on equity.
Regions Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Shinhan Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $1.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Regions Financial pays out 52.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Shinhan Financial Group pays out 19.7% 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. Regions Financial has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Regions Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Shinhan Financial Group has higher revenue and earnings than Regions Financial. Shinhan Financial Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Regions Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Regions Financial had 44 more articles in the media than Shinhan Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 51 mentions for Regions Financial and 7 mentions for Shinhan Financial Group. Regions Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Shinhan Financial Group's score of 0.46 indicating that Shinhan Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Regions Financial currently has a consensus target price of $20.34, suggesting a potential upside of 3.66%. Given Shinhan Financial Group's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Regions Financial is more favorable than Shinhan Financial Group.
Regions Financial received 651 more outperform votes than Shinhan Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.57% of users gave Shinhan Financial Group an outperform vote while only 63.44% of users gave Regions Financial an outperform vote.
Regions Financial has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shinhan Financial Group has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Regions Financial beats Shinhan Financial Group on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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