FITB vs. PNC, TFC, MTB, FCNCA, HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, and SSB
Should you be buying Fifth Third Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fifth Third Bancorp include The PNC Financial Services Group (PNC), Truist Financial (TFC), M&T Bank (MTB), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), and SouthState (SSB). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Fifth Third Bancorp vs.
The PNC Financial Services Group (NYSE:PNC) and Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ:FITB) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, risk, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
The PNC Financial Services Group has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fifth Third Bancorp has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, The PNC Financial Services Group and The PNC Financial Services Group both had 16 articles in the media. The PNC Financial Services Group's average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat Fifth Third Bancorp's score of 1.21 indicating that The PNC Financial Services Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
The PNC Financial Services Group currently has a consensus price target of $202.67, suggesting a potential upside of 13.06%. Fifth Third Bancorp has a consensus price target of $47.53, suggesting a potential upside of 20.07%. Given Fifth Third Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Fifth Third Bancorp is more favorable than The PNC Financial Services Group.
83.5% of The PNC Financial Services Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.8% of Fifth Third Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of The PNC Financial Services Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Fifth Third Bancorp 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.
The PNC Financial Services Group received 78 more outperform votes than Fifth Third Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.94% of users gave The PNC Financial Services Group an outperform vote while only 56.88% of users gave Fifth Third Bancorp an outperform vote.
Fifth Third Bancorp has a net margin of 17.43% compared to The PNC Financial Services Group's net margin of 17.10%. Fifth Third Bancorp's return on equity of 14.10% beat The PNC Financial Services Group's return on equity.
The PNC Financial Services Group has higher revenue and earnings than Fifth Third Bancorp. Fifth Third Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The PNC Financial Services Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
The PNC Financial Services Group pays an annual dividend of $6.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Fifth Third Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. The PNC Financial Services Group pays out 45.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fifth Third Bancorp pays out 47.0% 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. The PNC Financial Services Group has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years and Fifth Third Bancorp has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years.
Summary
The PNC Financial Services Group and Fifth Third Bancorp tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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