BANF vs. EWBC, FHN, SSB, WBS, CBSH, PNFP, CFR, WTFC, WAL, and UMBF
Should you be buying BancFirst stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BancFirst include East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), SouthState (SSB), Webster Financial (WBS), Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), Pinnacle Financial Partners (PNFP), Cullen/Frost Bankers (CFR), Wintrust Financial (WTFC), Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL), and UMB Financial (UMBF). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
BancFirst vs. Its Competitors
East West Bancorp (NASDAQ:EWBC) and BancFirst (NASDAQ:BANF) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
89.5% of East West Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.7% of BancFirst shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of East West Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 32.4% of BancFirst shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
East West Bancorp has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BancFirst has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
East West Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $107.85, suggesting a potential upside of 14.97%. BancFirst has a consensus target price of $113.33, suggesting a potential downside of 8.02%. Given East West Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe East West Bancorp is more favorable than BancFirst.
East West Bancorp has a net margin of 25.73% compared to BancFirst's net margin of 23.52%. East West Bancorp's return on equity of 15.71% beat BancFirst's return on equity.
East West Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. BancFirst pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. East West Bancorp pays out 28.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BancFirst pays out 27.8% 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. East West Bancorp has raised its dividend for 8 consecutive years and BancFirst has raised its dividend for 31 consecutive years.
East West Bancorp received 346 more outperform votes than BancFirst when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.61% of users gave East West Bancorp an outperform vote while only 52.38% of users gave BancFirst an outperform vote.
East West Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than BancFirst. East West Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BancFirst, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, East West Bancorp had 4 more articles in the media than BancFirst. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for East West Bancorp and 5 mentions for BancFirst. BancFirst's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat East West Bancorp's score of 0.99 indicating that BancFirst is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
East West Bancorp beats BancFirst on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NASDAQ:BANF) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
