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NAVI vs. FITB, HBAN, OBK, SLM, WTFC, COF, EQH, FNB, OMF, and SYF

Should you be buying Navient stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Navient include Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Origin Bancorp (OBK), SLM (SLM), Wintrust Financial (WTFC), Capital One Financial (COF), Equitable (EQH), F.N.B. (FNB), OneMain (OMF), and Synchrony Financial (SYF). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

Navient vs. Its Competitors

Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ:FITB) and Navient (NASDAQ:NAVI) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, media sentiment, earnings and valuation.

Fifth Third Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $47.53, indicating a potential upside of 8.61%. Navient has a consensus target price of $13.71, indicating a potential downside of 10.01%. Given Fifth Third Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Fifth Third Bancorp is more favorable than Navient.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Fifth Third Bancorp
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
12 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.84
Navient
3 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.88

In the previous week, Fifth Third Bancorp had 3 more articles in the media than Navient. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Fifth Third Bancorp and 13 mentions for Navient. Fifth Third Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Navient's score of 0.73 indicating that Fifth Third Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Fifth Third Bancorp
11 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Navient
3 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

83.8% of Fifth Third Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.1% of Navient shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Fifth Third Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 31.2% of Navient shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Fifth Third Bancorp has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Navient has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Fifth Third Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Navient. Fifth Third Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Navient, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Fifth Third Bancorp$13.28B2.20$2.31B$3.1513.89
Navient$830M1.86$131M$0.5030.48

Fifth Third Bancorp has a net margin of 17.65% compared to Navient's net margin of 1.37%. Fifth Third Bancorp's return on equity of 13.64% beat Navient's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Fifth Third Bancorp17.65% 13.64% 1.14%
Navient 1.37%5.20%0.26%

Fifth Third Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Navient pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Fifth Third Bancorp pays out 47.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Navient pays out 128.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Fifth Third Bancorp has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years.

Summary

Fifth Third Bancorp beats Navient on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding NAVI and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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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NAVI vs. The Competition

MetricNavientFIN IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$1.54B$8.27B$12.00B$9.11B
Dividend Yield4.11%3.42%5.54%4.01%
P/E Ratio30.4815.6519.2020.27
Price / Sales1.862.6725.66100.92
Price / Cash4.998.3721.4557.67
Price / Book0.621.862.285.49
Net Income$131M$486.48M$992.82M$250.45M
7 Day Performance2.83%-1.20%-0.20%4.78%
1 Month Performance15.37%10.00%3.93%9.58%
1 Year Performance3.25%33.94%539.44%16.41%

Navient Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NAVI
Navient
4.47 of 5 stars
$15.24
-2.2%
$13.71
-10.0%
+3.3%$1.54B$830M30.482,100News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
FITB
Fifth Third Bancorp
4.7364 of 5 stars
$43.07
-0.8%
$47.53
+10.4%
+13.7%$28.75B$8.29B13.6718,616Upcoming Earnings
HBAN
Huntington Bancshares
4.9266 of 5 stars
$17.54
flat
$18.33
+4.5%
+28.4%$25.62B$7.55B13.3919,932Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
OBK
Origin Bancorp
3.4045 of 5 stars
$37.38
-1.5%
$42.20
+12.9%
+10.7%$1.16B$358.20M15.201,010News Coverage
SLM
SLM
4.6809 of 5 stars
$34.40
+1.6%
$32.30
-6.1%
+52.5%$7.22B$2.62B12.371,710Analyst Upgrade
WTFC
Wintrust Financial
4.6075 of 5 stars
$130.61
-1.0%
$135.77
+4.0%
+26.7%$8.74B$2.49B12.925,903Positive News
Analyst Forecast
COF
Capital One Financial
4.9745 of 5 stars
$218.07
-1.3%
$215.86
-1.0%
+58.9%$83.55B$53.94B18.3152,600Trending News
Analyst Upgrade
Analyst Revision
EQH
Equitable
4.4532 of 5 stars
$54.62
-1.9%
$62.64
+14.7%
+24.6%$16.60B$12.44B14.848,000News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
FNB
F.N.B.
3.9435 of 5 stars
$15.52
-0.4%
$17.57
+13.2%
+9.7%$5.58B$2.57B12.324,280News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
OMF
OneMain
4.7799 of 5 stars
$59.37
-0.7%
$58.40
-1.6%
+18.9%$7.06B$4.99B12.559,000Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
SYF
Synchrony Financial
4.9618 of 5 stars
$69.69
-0.7%
$65.78
-5.6%
+43.7%$26.53B$22.65B9.5620,000Trending News
Analyst Forecast

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This page (NASDAQ:NAVI) was last updated on 7/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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