BOKF vs. HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, WBS, SSB, WAL, WTFC, and UMBF
Should you be buying BOK Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BOK Financial include Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), Webster Financial (WBS), SouthState (SSB), Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL), Wintrust Financial (WTFC), and UMB Financial (UMBF). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
BOK Financial vs. Its Competitors
Huntington Bancshares (NASDAQ:HBAN) and BOK Financial (NASDAQ:BOKF) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Huntington Bancshares currently has a consensus price target of $18.68, indicating a potential upside of 17.55%. BOK Financial has a consensus price target of $112.58, indicating a potential upside of 12.22%. Given Huntington Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Huntington Bancshares is more favorable than BOK Financial.
Huntington Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than BOK Financial. Huntington Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BOK Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Huntington Bancshares has a net margin of 17.36% compared to BOK Financial's net margin of 15.80%. Huntington Bancshares' return on equity of 11.81% beat BOK Financial's return on equity.
80.7% of Huntington Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.4% of BOK Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Huntington Bancshares shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 56.9% of BOK Financial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Huntington Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. BOK Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Huntington Bancshares pays out 45.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BOK Financial pays out 27.3% 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 20 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Huntington Bancshares had 4 more articles in the media than BOK Financial. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Huntington Bancshares and 7 mentions for BOK Financial. Huntington Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.73 beat BOK Financial's score of 0.99 indicating that Huntington Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Huntington Bancshares has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BOK Financial has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Huntington Bancshares beats BOK Financial on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:BOKF) was last updated on 8/8/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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