Cathay General Bancorp (NASDAQ:CATY) Vs. PNC, TFC, SIVB, FITB, FRC, KEY, HBAN, RF, MTB, and SBNY
Should you be buying Cathay General Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cathay General Bancorp include The PNC Financial Services Group (PNC), Truist Financial (TFC), SVB Financial Group (SIVB), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), First Republic Bank (FRC), KeyCorp (KEY), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), M&T Bank (MTB), and Signature Bank (SBNY). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Cathay General Bancorp vs.
Cathay General Bancorp (NASDAQ:CATY) and Truist Financial (NYSE:TFC) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and risk.
Cathay General Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Truist Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Cathay General Bancorp pays out 36.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Truist Financial pays out 45.3% 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. Cathay General Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
68.5% of Cathay General Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.9% of Truist Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.2% of Cathay General Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Truist Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Cathay General Bancorp presently has a consensus price target of $45.50, indicating a potential upside of 4.81%. Truist Financial has a consensus price target of $67.57, indicating a potential upside of 9.93%. Given Truist Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Truist Financial is more favorable than Cathay General Bancorp.
Cathay General Bancorp has a beta of 1.37, meaning that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Truist Financial has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cathay General Bancorp has a net margin of 41.32% compared to Truist Financial's net margin of 25.94%. Truist Financial's return on equity of 12.11% beat Cathay General Bancorp's return on equity.
Truist Financial received 405 more outperform votes than Cathay General Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.96% of users gave Cathay General Bancorp an outperform vote while only 58.66% of users gave Truist Financial an outperform vote.
Truist Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Cathay General Bancorp. Cathay General Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Truist Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Truist Financial had 26 more articles in the media than Cathay General Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Truist Financial and 3 mentions for Cathay General Bancorp. Cathay General Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Truist Financial's score of -0.23 indicating that Cathay General Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Truist Financial beats Cathay General Bancorp on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding CATY and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment >-1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Cathay General Bancorp (NASDAQ:CATY) vs. Its Competitors
Cathay General Bancorp Competitors List
