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Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB) Competitors

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FITB vs. HBAN, BKU, CFG, CMA, KEY, MTB, RF, TFC, USB, and PNC

Should you be buying Fifth Third Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fifth Third Bancorp include Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), BankUnited (BKU), Citizens Financial Group (CFG), Comerica (CMA), KeyCorp (KEY), M&T Bank (MTB), Regions Financial (RF), Truist Financial (TFC), U.S. Bancorp (USB), and The PNC Financial Services Group (PNC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

Fifth Third Bancorp vs. Its Competitors

Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ:FITB) and Huntington Bancshares (NASDAQ:HBAN) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and earnings.

Fifth Third Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $50.20, suggesting a potential upside of 21.05%. Huntington Bancshares has a consensus target price of $19.24, suggesting a potential upside of 23.31%. Given Huntington Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Huntington Bancshares is more favorable than Fifth Third Bancorp.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Fifth Third Bancorp
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
16 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.82
Huntington Bancshares
1 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
16 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.86

In the previous week, Fifth Third Bancorp had 54 more articles in the media than Huntington Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 69 mentions for Fifth Third Bancorp and 15 mentions for Huntington Bancshares. Huntington Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Fifth Third Bancorp's score of 0.79 indicating that Huntington Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Fifth Third Bancorp
28 Very Positive mention(s)
8 Positive mention(s)
19 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Huntington Bancshares
7 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

83.8% of Fifth Third Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.7% of Huntington Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Fifth Third Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Huntington Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Fifth Third Bancorp has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Huntington Bancshares has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Fifth Third Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Huntington Bancshares. Huntington Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fifth Third Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Fifth Third Bancorp$13.28B2.07$2.31B$3.2212.88
Huntington Bancshares$11.96B1.90$1.94B$1.3511.56

Fifth Third Bancorp has a net margin of 17.97% compared to Huntington Bancshares' net margin of 17.36%. Fifth Third Bancorp's return on equity of 13.31% beat Huntington Bancshares' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Fifth Third Bancorp17.97% 13.31% 1.15%
Huntington Bancshares 17.36%11.81%1.06%

Fifth Third Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Huntington Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Fifth Third Bancorp pays out 49.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Huntington Bancshares pays out 45.9% 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. Fifth Third Bancorp has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years. Huntington Bancshares is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Summary

Fifth Third Bancorp beats Huntington Bancshares on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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FITB vs. The Competition

MetricFifth Third BancorpBANKS IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$28.98B$34.13B$12.37B$10.23B
Dividend Yield3.65%3.44%5.54%4.70%
P/E Ratio12.9612.8429.7626.57
Price / Sales2.072.7130.37179.70
Price / Cash9.8910.8722.5862.20
Price / Book1.591.432.236.53
Net Income$2.31B$2.60B$1.02B$275.96M
7 Day Performance-6.62%-4.04%-1.75%-1.40%
1 Month Performance-8.88%-3.62%-1.41%5.16%
1 Year Performance-2.81%13.53%537.05%31.55%

Fifth Third Bancorp Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FITB
Fifth Third Bancorp
4.9354 of 5 stars
$41.47
-5.3%
$50.20
+21.1%
+2.7%$28.98B$13.28B12.9618,616Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
HBAN
Huntington Bancshares
4.9971 of 5 stars
$17.35
-0.4%
$19.05
+9.8%
+9.4%$25.31B$11.96B12.8519,932Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
BKU
BankUnited
3.9431 of 5 stars
$38.15
-1.2%
$41.91
+9.9%
+12.9%$2.87B$2.02B11.191,680News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
CFG
Citizens Financial Group
4.883 of 5 stars
$53.63
+0.5%
$53.75
+0.2%
+24.9%$23.13B$12.36B16.3017,287Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
CMA
Comerica
4.3667 of 5 stars
$68.89
-0.8%
$66.10
-4.1%
+35.2%$8.85B$4.99B13.207,928Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Upgrade
KEY
KeyCorp
4.903 of 5 stars
$18.87
-0.1%
$19.81
+5.0%
+7.8%$20.69B$9.24B-269.5016,753Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
MTB
M&T Bank
4.9238 of 5 stars
$198.35
-0.9%
$214.53
+8.2%
+4.9%$31.00B$13.45B12.8522,354Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
RF
Regions Financial
4.9763 of 5 stars
$26.50
-0.5%
$27.74
+4.7%
+9.6%$23.64B$9.37B12.3219,644Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
TFC
Truist Financial
4.7379 of 5 stars
$45.90
-0.3%
$48.82
+6.4%
+3.7%$59.19B$24.25B12.5138,335Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
USB
U.S. Bancorp
4.9849 of 5 stars
$48.94
-1.0%
$53.02
+8.3%
+4.4%$76.16B$42.71B11.7170,263Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
PNC
The PNC Financial Services Group
4.9727 of 5 stars
$201.79
-0.8%
$216.28
+7.2%
+4.0%$79.47B$34.44B13.8055,184Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision

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