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$17.48 -0.06 (-0.34%)
Closing price 07/8/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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HBAN vs. FITB, WTFC, CFG, FNB, KEY, PNC, RF, SNV, TFC, and MTB

Should you be buying Huntington Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Huntington Bancshares include Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), Wintrust Financial (WTFC), Citizens Financial Group (CFG), F.N.B. (FNB), KeyCorp (KEY), The PNC Financial Services Group (PNC), Regions Financial (RF), Synovus Financial (SNV), Truist Financial (TFC), and M&T Bank (MTB). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

Huntington Bancshares vs. Its Competitors

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

Fifth Third Bancorp has a net margin of 17.65% compared to Huntington Bancshares' net margin of 16.94%. Fifth Third Bancorp's return on equity of 13.64% beat Huntington Bancshares' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Huntington Bancshares16.94% 11.44% 1.01%
Fifth Third Bancorp 17.65%13.64%1.14%

80.7% of Huntington Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.8% of Fifth Third Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Huntington Bancshares 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 endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Huntington Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Fifth Third Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Huntington Bancshares pays out 47.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fifth Third Bancorp pays out 47.0% 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 has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fifth Third Bancorp has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Huntington Bancshares had 10 more articles in the media than Fifth Third Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Huntington Bancshares and 16 mentions for Fifth Third Bancorp. Huntington Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Fifth Third Bancorp's score of 0.56 indicating that Huntington Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Huntington Bancshares
13 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
8 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Fifth Third Bancorp
10 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Huntington Bancshares currently has a consensus target price of $18.48, indicating a potential upside of 5.69%. Fifth Third Bancorp has a consensus target price of $47.53, indicating a potential upside of 9.39%. Given Fifth Third Bancorp's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Fifth Third Bancorp 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)
17 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.87
Fifth Third Bancorp
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
12 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.84

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
Huntington Bancshares$11.96B2.13$1.94B$1.3113.34
Fifth Third Bancorp$13.28B2.18$2.31B$3.1513.79

Summary

Fifth Third Bancorp beats Huntington Bancshares on 12 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

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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HBAN vs. The Competition

MetricHuntington BancsharesBANKS IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$25.62B$2.49B$11.91B$8.95B
Dividend Yield3.53%3.50%5.57%4.04%
P/E Ratio13.3411.9219.9820.11
Price / Sales2.132.2025.43119.79
Price / Cash9.8310.8721.4457.86
Price / Book1.431.242.265.56
Net Income$1.94B$174.52M$990.08M$248.40M
7 Day Performance0.46%0.64%0.22%4.67%
1 Month Performance7.70%5.86%2.88%6.64%
1 Year Performance34.77%25.82%541.16%21.31%

Huntington Bancshares Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HBAN
Huntington Bancshares
4.8211 of 5 stars
$17.48
-0.3%
$18.48
+5.7%
+34.6%$25.62B$11.96B13.3419,932Analyst Forecast
FITB
Fifth Third Bancorp
4.8649 of 5 stars
$41.13
-0.9%
$47.53
+15.6%
+19.9%$27.45B$13.28B13.0619,300
WTFC
Wintrust Financial
4.4678 of 5 stars
$123.98
+0.5%
$135.77
+9.5%
+37.7%$8.30B$3.97B12.265,903Analyst Forecast
CFG
Citizens Financial Group
4.8503 of 5 stars
$44.80
+0.8%
$47.89
+6.9%
+33.8%$19.58B$7.77B14.2218,900Positive News
FNB
F.N.B.
4.2718 of 5 stars
$14.59
+0.3%
$17.57
+20.4%
+17.7%$5.25B$1.60B11.584,280
KEY
KeyCorp
4.9033 of 5 stars
$17.45
+1.3%
$18.92
+8.4%
+31.9%$19.12B$9.24B-102.6516,753Trending News
Analyst Upgrade
Gap Up
PNC
The PNC Financial Services Group
4.957 of 5 stars
$186.54
+0.4%
$202.67
+8.6%
+24.8%$73.79B$21.11B13.1761,500Upcoming Earnings
Dividend Increase
Analyst Upgrade
RF
Regions Financial
4.8856 of 5 stars
$23.54
+0.8%
$25.80
+9.6%
+24.7%$21.16B$9.37B11.3220,100
SNV
Synovus Financial
4.7865 of 5 stars
$51.80
+0.2%
$56.56
+9.2%
+39.7%$7.20B$3.43B14.514,775Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
TFC
Truist Financial
4.6122 of 5 stars
$43.05
+1.0%
$48.44
+12.5%
+18.8%$56.38B$24.25B12.7052,600News Coverage
Analyst Upgrade
MTB
M&T Bank
4.6199 of 5 stars
$194.06
+0.1%
$210.88
+8.7%
+35.5%$31.15B$9.30B13.0022,800Positive News
Upcoming Earnings

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This page (NASDAQ:HBAN) was last updated on 7/9/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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