Huntington Bancshares (NASDAQ:HBAN) Vs. PNC, TFC, SIVB, FRC, FITB, KEY, RF, MTB, SBNY, and WAL
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), SVB Financial Group (SIVB), First Republic Bank (FRC), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), KeyCorp (KEY), Regions Financial (RF), M&T Bank (MTB), Signature Bank (SBNY), and Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Huntington Bancshares vs.
Truist Financial (NYSE:TFC) and Huntington Bancshares (NASDAQ:HBAN) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking and valuation.
Truist Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Huntington Bancshares. Truist 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.
Truist Financial received 208 more outperform votes than Huntington Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.90% of users gave Truist Financial an outperform vote while only 53.74% of users gave Huntington Bancshares an outperform vote.
Truist Financial currently has a consensus target price of $61.53, suggesting a potential upside of 0.32%. Huntington Bancshares has a consensus target price of $16.36, suggesting a potential upside of 1.43%. Given Huntington Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Huntington Bancshares is more favorable than Truist Financial.
In the previous week, Truist Financial had 2 more articles in the media than Huntington Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Truist Financial and 11 mentions for Huntington Bancshares. Huntington Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Truist Financial's score of -0.04 indicating that Huntington Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Truist Financial has a beta of 1.34, meaning that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Huntington Bancshares has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Huntington Bancshares has a net margin of 31.76% compared to Truist Financial's net margin of 23.46%. Huntington Bancshares' return on equity of 12.87% beat Truist Financial's return on equity.
Truist Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Huntington Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Truist Financial pays out 50.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Huntington Bancshares pays out 87.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Truist Financial has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
70.8% of Truist Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.8% of Huntington Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Truist Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Huntington Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Truist Financial and Huntington Bancshares tied by winning 11 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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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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