FULT vs. CVBF, CATY, ONB, COLB, WD, RVT, SKWD, RONI, FSCO, and ARGO
Should you be buying Fulton Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fulton Financial include CVB Financial (CVBF), Cathay General Bancorp (CATY), Old National Bancorp (ONB), Columbia Banking System (COLB), Walker & Dunlop (WD), Royce Value Trust (RVT), Skyward Specialty Insurance Group (SKWD), Rice Acquisition Corp. II (RONI), FS Credit Opportunities (FSCO), and Argo Group International (ARGO).
Fulton Financial (NASDAQ:FULT) and CVB Financial (NASDAQ:CVBF) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, risk and institutional ownership.
Fulton Financial has higher revenue and earnings than CVB Financial. Fulton Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CVB Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fulton Financial has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CVB Financial has a beta of 0.51, indicating that its stock price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500.
69.6% of Fulton Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.5% of CVB Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Fulton Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of CVB Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, CVB Financial had 1 more articles in the media than Fulton Financial. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for CVB Financial and 0 mentions for Fulton Financial. CVB Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Fulton Financial's score of -0.84 indicating that CVB Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Fulton Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. CVB Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Fulton Financial pays out 36.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CVB Financial pays out 46.8% 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. Fulton Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
CVB Financial has a net margin of 37.18% compared to Fulton Financial's net margin of 21.17%. Fulton Financial's return on equity of 12.75% beat CVB Financial's return on equity.
Fulton Financial presently has a consensus target price of $15.00, suggesting a potential downside of 1.57%. CVB Financial has a consensus target price of $19.00, suggesting a potential downside of 2.16%. Given Fulton Financial's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Fulton Financial is more favorable than CVB Financial.
CVB Financial received 34 more outperform votes than Fulton Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.79% of users gave CVB Financial an outperform vote while only 47.11% of users gave Fulton Financial an outperform vote.
Summary
CVB Financial beats Fulton Financial on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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