FCNCA vs. CFG, ALLY, CBSH, PNC, TFC, MTB, FITB, HBAN, RF, and KEY
Should you be buying First Citizens BancShares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of First Citizens BancShares include Citizens Financial Group (CFG), Ally Financial (ALLY), Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), The PNC Financial Services Group (PNC), Truist Financial (TFC), M&T Bank (MTB), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), and KeyCorp (KEY). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Citizens Financial Group (NYSE:CFG) and First Citizens BancShares (NASDAQ:FCNCA) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and risk.
First Citizens BancShares has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Citizens Financial Group. First Citizens BancShares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Citizens Financial Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
First Citizens BancShares has a net margin of 18.22% compared to First Citizens BancShares' net margin of 10.74%. Citizens Financial Group's return on equity of 15.48% beat First Citizens BancShares' return on equity.
Citizens Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. First Citizens BancShares pays an annual dividend of $6.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Citizens Financial Group pays out 60.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. First Citizens BancShares pays out 3.6% 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.
94.9% of Citizens Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.2% of First Citizens BancShares shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Citizens Financial Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.4% of First Citizens BancShares shares are held by 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.
Citizens Financial Group has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, First Citizens BancShares has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Citizens Financial Group had 3 more articles in the media than First Citizens BancShares. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Citizens Financial Group and 26 mentions for First Citizens BancShares. Citizens Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat First Citizens BancShares' score of 0.60 indicating that First Citizens BancShares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Citizens Financial Group received 345 more outperform votes than First Citizens BancShares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.40% of users gave Citizens Financial Group an outperform vote while only 56.74% of users gave First Citizens BancShares an outperform vote.
Citizens Financial Group presently has a consensus price target of $41.60, suggesting a potential downside of 4.30%. First Citizens BancShares has a consensus price target of $1,893.55, suggesting a potential downside of 8.18%. Given First Citizens BancShares' higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Citizens Financial Group is more favorable than First Citizens BancShares.
Summary
Citizens Financial Group and First Citizens BancShares tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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