HBAN vs. CFR, ZION, PNC, TFC, FITB, MTB, FCNCA, RF, KEY, and EWBC
Should you be buying Huntington Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Huntington Bancshares include Cullen/Frost Bankers (CFR), Zions Bancorporation, National Association (ZION), The PNC Financial Services Group (PNC), Truist Financial (TFC), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), M&T Bank (MTB), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), and East West Bancorp (EWBC). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Huntington Bancshares (NASDAQ:HBAN) and Cullen/Frost Bankers (NYSE:CFR) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.
80.7% of Huntington Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.9% of Cullen/Frost Bankers shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Huntington Bancshares shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Cullen/Frost Bankers shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Huntington Bancshares currently has a consensus price target of $15.47, suggesting a potential upside of 2.25%. Cullen/Frost Bankers has a consensus price target of $117.79, suggesting a potential downside of 1.63%. Given Huntington Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Huntington Bancshares is more favorable than Cullen/Frost Bankers.
Huntington Bancshares has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cullen/Frost Bankers has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Huntington Bancshares had 12 more articles in the media than Cullen/Frost Bankers. MarketBeat recorded 43 mentions for Huntington Bancshares and 31 mentions for Cullen/Frost Bankers. Huntington Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Cullen/Frost Bankers' score of 0.43 indicating that Huntington Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Huntington Bancshares received 221 more outperform votes than Cullen/Frost Bankers when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.55% of users gave Huntington Bancshares an outperform vote while only 39.77% of users gave Cullen/Frost Bankers an outperform vote.
Huntington Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Cullen/Frost Bankers pays an annual dividend of $3.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Huntington Bancshares pays out 55.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cullen/Frost Bankers pays out 43.5% 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.
Huntington Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than Cullen/Frost Bankers. Huntington Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cullen/Frost Bankers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cullen/Frost Bankers has a net margin of 20.57% compared to Huntington Bancshares' net margin of 14.77%. Cullen/Frost Bankers' return on equity of 18.31% beat Huntington Bancshares' return on equity.
Summary
Huntington Bancshares beats Cullen/Frost Bankers on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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