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HBAN vs. PNC, TFC, MTB, FCNCA, FITB, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, and SSB

Should you be buying Huntington Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Huntington Bancshares include The PNC Financial Services Group (PNC), Truist Financial (TFC), M&T Bank (MTB), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), 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.

Huntington Bancshares vs.

Huntington Bancshares (NASDAQ:HBAN) and The PNC Financial Services Group (NYSE:PNC) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, risk, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and valuation.

The PNC Financial Services Group received 254 more outperform votes than Huntington Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.91% of users gave The PNC Financial Services Group an outperform vote while only 51.62% of users gave Huntington Bancshares an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Huntington BancsharesOutperform Votes
588
51.62%
Underperform Votes
551
48.38%
The PNC Financial Services GroupOutperform Votes
842
57.91%
Underperform Votes
612
42.09%

80.7% of Huntington Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.5% of The PNC Financial Services Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Huntington Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of The PNC Financial Services Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

The PNC Financial Services Group has a net margin of 17.10% compared to Huntington Bancshares' net margin of 16.23%. Huntington Bancshares' return on equity of 11.23% beat The PNC Financial Services Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Huntington Bancshares16.23% 11.23% 0.99%
The PNC Financial Services Group 17.10%11.12%1.06%

Huntington Bancshares presently has a consensus price target of $17.45, indicating a potential upside of 20.08%. The PNC Financial Services Group has a consensus price target of $200.88, indicating a potential upside of 24.97%. Given The PNC Financial Services Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe The PNC Financial Services Group is more favorable than Huntington Bancshares.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Huntington Bancshares
1 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
15 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.86
The PNC Financial Services Group
2 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
9 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

Huntington Bancshares has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, The PNC Financial Services Group has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Huntington Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. The PNC Financial Services Group pays an annual dividend of $6.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Huntington Bancshares pays out 47.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. The PNC Financial Services Group pays out 45.2% 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.

In the previous week, The PNC Financial Services Group had 3 more articles in the media than Huntington Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for The PNC Financial Services Group and 28 mentions for Huntington Bancshares. The PNC Financial Services Group's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Huntington Bancshares' score of 1.07 indicating that The PNC Financial Services Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Huntington Bancshares
16 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
The PNC Financial Services Group
23 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

The PNC Financial Services Group has higher revenue and earnings than Huntington Bancshares. Huntington Bancshares 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Huntington Bancshares$7.55B2.81$1.94B$1.3111.09
The PNC Financial Services Group$21.11B3.01$5.89B$14.1611.35

Summary

The PNC Financial Services Group beats Huntington Bancshares on 15 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.

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HBAN vs. The Competition

MetricHuntington BancsharesNational commercial banks IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$21.22B$21.81B$11.12B$7.83B
Dividend Yield4.31%3.65%5.79%4.22%
P/E Ratio11.8112.3322.0018.48
Price / Sales2.812.7926.07103.59
Price / Cash9.2111.1617.6034.62
Price / Book1.191.152.654.25
Net Income$1.94B$2.17B$1.03B$248.23M
7 Day Performance-0.14%0.69%0.57%0.89%
1 Month Performance-2.81%0.62%-0.43%3.53%
1 Year Performance6.45%18.66%537.91%5.08%

Huntington Bancshares Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HBAN
Huntington Bancshares
4.9284 of 5 stars
$14.65
+0.8%
$17.45
+19.1%
+7.9%$21.39B$7.55B11.9120,000Positive News
PNC
The PNC Financial Services Group
4.9745 of 5 stars
$149.34
-2.0%
$200.88
+34.5%
+4.9%$59.10B$21.11B10.8661,500Insider Trade
Positive News
TFC
Truist Financial
4.8654 of 5 stars
$35.14
-2.1%
$48.28
+37.4%
+2.2%$45.87B$13.36B10.5552,600Dividend Announcement
Analyst Downgrade
MTB
M&T Bank
4.9334 of 5 stars
$155.77
-2.8%
$208.14
+33.6%
+17.5%$25.59B$9.30B10.6522,800Short Interest ↓
Positive News
FCNCA
First Citizens BancShares
4.9724 of 5 stars
$1,677.56
-2.3%
$2,346.09
+39.9%
+5.5%$22.78B$9.73B8.8610,700Earnings Report
Analyst Downgrade
Positive News
FITB
Fifth Third Bancorp
4.9986 of 5 stars
$33.03
-3.3%
$46.71
+41.4%
-1.4%$22.07B$8.33B10.5219,300Positive News
RF
Regions Financial
4.9186 of 5 stars
$18.96
-1.8%
$26.11
+37.7%
+5.9%$17.17B$7.12B9.7720,100Positive News
KEY
KeyCorp
4.9979 of 5 stars
$13.75
-3.6%
$19.26
+40.1%
+2.4%$15.07B$4.64B-45.8317,500Analyst Forecast
EWBC
East West Bancorp
3.7073 of 5 stars
$76.01
-1.8%
$106.46
+40.1%
+14.8%$10.52B$2.57B9.123,160Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
FHN
First Horizon
4.8265 of 5 stars
$16.51
-3.5%
$22.03
+33.5%
+21.1%$8.49B$3.11B12.147,540Dividend Announcement
Analyst Downgrade
Positive News
SSB
SouthState
4.5369 of 5 stars
$83.34
-1.7%
$117.90
+41.5%
+14.8%$8.45B$1.67B11.975,030Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
News Coverage

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