FITB vs. MTB, FCNCA, EWBC, CBSH, WAL, BPOP, STT, NTRS, DB, and CFG
Should you be buying Fifth Third Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fifth Third Bancorp include M&T Bank (MTB), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), East West Bancorp (EWBC), Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL), Popular (BPOP), State Street (STT), Northern Trust (NTRS), Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft (DB), and Citizens Financial Group (CFG). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
M&T Bank (NYSE:MTB) and Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ:FITB) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
84.7% of M&T Bank shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.8% of Fifth Third Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of M&T Bank shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Fifth Third Bancorp shares are held by company 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.
M&T Bank has a net margin of 19.52% compared to M&T Bank's net margin of 17.70%. M&T Bank's return on equity of 16.11% beat Fifth Third Bancorp's return on equity.
M&T Bank pays an annual dividend of $5.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Fifth Third Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. M&T Bank pays out 35.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fifth Third Bancorp pays out 44.4% 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. M&T Bank has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Fifth Third Bancorp has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years. Fifth Third Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
M&T Bank has higher revenue and earnings than Fifth Third Bancorp. M&T Bank 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.
M&T Bank has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fifth Third Bancorp has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
M&T Bank presently has a consensus price target of $158.48, suggesting a potential upside of 7.88%. Fifth Third Bancorp has a consensus price target of $36.31, suggesting a potential downside of 1.38%. Given Fifth Third Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe M&T Bank is more favorable than Fifth Third Bancorp.
In the previous week, Fifth Third Bancorp had 11 more articles in the media than M&T Bank. MarketBeat recorded 37 mentions for Fifth Third Bancorp and 26 mentions for M&T Bank. M&T Bank's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Fifth Third Bancorp's score of 0.39 indicating that Fifth Third Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Fifth Third Bancorp received 507 more outperform votes than M&T Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.12% of users gave Fifth Third Bancorp an outperform vote while only 46.39% of users gave M&T Bank an outperform vote.
Summary
Fifth Third Bancorp beats M&T Bank on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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