HBAN vs. RF, KEY, FHN, WBS, CFR, ZION, PNFP, BOKF, SNV, and TFC
Should you be buying Huntington Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Huntington Bancshares include Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), First Horizon (FHN), Webster Financial (WBS), Cullen/Frost Bankers (CFR), Zions Bancorporation, National Association (ZION), Pinnacle Financial Partners (PNFP), BOK Financial (BOKF), Synovus Financial (SNV), and Truist Financial (TFC). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Huntington Bancshares (NASDAQ:HBAN) and Regions Financial (NYSE:RF) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and community ranking.
In the previous week, Huntington Bancshares and Huntington Bancshares both had 13 articles in the media. Huntington Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Regions Financial's score of 0.60 indicating that Huntington Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Regions Financial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Huntington Bancshares. Regions Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Huntington Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Huntington Bancshares currently has a consensus price target of $15.17, suggesting a potential upside of 7.87%. Regions Financial has a consensus price target of $20.34, suggesting a potential upside of 2.57%. Given Huntington Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Huntington Bancshares is more favorable than Regions Financial.
Huntington Bancshares has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Regions Financial has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Regions Financial received 366 more outperform votes than Huntington Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.44% of users gave Regions Financial an outperform vote while only 51.30% of users gave Huntington Bancshares an outperform vote.
80.7% of Huntington Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.4% of Regions Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Huntington Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Regions Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Huntington Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Regions Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Huntington Bancshares pays out 55.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Regions Financial pays out 52.2% 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. Regions Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Regions Financial has a net margin of 19.75% compared to Huntington Bancshares' net margin of 15.86%. Regions Financial's return on equity of 13.28% beat Huntington Bancshares' return on equity.
Summary
Regions Financial beats Huntington Bancshares on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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