PNFP vs. MTB, FITB, FCNCA, HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, SSB, and WBS
Should you be buying Pinnacle Financial Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pinnacle Financial Partners include M&T Bank (MTB), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), SouthState (SSB), and Webster Financial (WBS). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Pinnacle Financial Partners vs. Its Competitors
Pinnacle Financial Partners (NASDAQ:PNFP) and M&T Bank (NYSE:MTB) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and valuation.
M&T Bank has a net margin of 19.24% compared to Pinnacle Financial Partners' net margin of 15.48%. M&T Bank's return on equity of 10.12% beat Pinnacle Financial Partners' return on equity.
87.4% of Pinnacle Financial Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.7% of M&T Bank shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Pinnacle Financial Partners shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of M&T Bank shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Pinnacle Financial Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. M&T Bank pays an annual dividend of $5.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Pinnacle Financial Partners pays out 15.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. M&T Bank pays out 36.2% 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. Pinnacle Financial Partners has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
M&T Bank has higher revenue and earnings than Pinnacle Financial Partners. M&T Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pinnacle Financial Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pinnacle Financial Partners currently has a consensus target price of $121.27, suggesting a potential upside of 14.01%. M&T Bank has a consensus target price of $212.53, suggesting a potential upside of 15.16%. Given M&T Bank's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe M&T Bank is more favorable than Pinnacle Financial Partners.
Pinnacle Financial Partners received 198 more outperform votes than M&T Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.42% of users gave Pinnacle Financial Partners an outperform vote while only 46.26% of users gave M&T Bank an outperform vote.
In the previous week, M&T Bank had 9 more articles in the media than Pinnacle Financial Partners. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for M&T Bank and 5 mentions for Pinnacle Financial Partners. Pinnacle Financial Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat M&T Bank's score of 0.96 indicating that Pinnacle Financial Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Pinnacle Financial Partners has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, M&T Bank has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Pinnacle Financial Partners beats M&T Bank on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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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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This page (NASDAQ:PNFP) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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