PNFP vs. CFR, ZION, SNV, BOKF, MTB, FITB, HBAN, RF, KEY, and EWBC
Should you be buying Pinnacle Financial Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pinnacle Financial Partners include Cullen/Frost Bankers (CFR), Zions Bancorporation, National Association (ZION), Synovus Financial (SNV), BOK Financial (BOKF), M&T Bank (MTB), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), and East West Bancorp (EWBC). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Cullen/Frost Bankers (NYSE:CFR) and Pinnacle Financial Partners (NASDAQ:PNFP) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk, media sentiment and community ranking.
Cullen/Frost Bankers currently has a consensus price target of $117.79, indicating a potential downside of 1.63%. Pinnacle Financial Partners has a consensus price target of $99.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.20%. Given Cullen/Frost Bankers' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Pinnacle Financial Partners is more favorable than Cullen/Frost Bankers.
Cullen/Frost Bankers has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pinnacle Financial Partners has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cullen/Frost Bankers has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Pinnacle Financial Partners. Pinnacle Financial Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cullen/Frost Bankers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cullen/Frost Bankers pays an annual dividend of $3.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Pinnacle Financial Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Cullen/Frost Bankers pays out 43.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pinnacle Financial Partners pays out 12.6% 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. Cullen/Frost Bankers has raised its dividend for 30 consecutive years. Cullen/Frost Bankers is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Pinnacle Financial Partners received 99 more outperform votes than Cullen/Frost Bankers when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.77% of users gave Pinnacle Financial Partners an outperform vote while only 39.77% of users gave Cullen/Frost Bankers an outperform vote.
Cullen/Frost Bankers has a net margin of 24.88% compared to Cullen/Frost Bankers' net margin of 13.93%. Pinnacle Financial Partners' return on equity of 17.72% beat Cullen/Frost Bankers' return on equity.
86.9% of Cullen/Frost Bankers shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.4% of Pinnacle Financial Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 2.9% of Cullen/Frost Bankers shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Pinnacle Financial Partners shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Cullen/Frost Bankers had 27 more articles in the media than Pinnacle Financial Partners. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Cullen/Frost Bankers and 5 mentions for Pinnacle Financial Partners. Cullen/Frost Bankers' average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Pinnacle Financial Partners' score of 0.65 indicating that Pinnacle Financial Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Cullen/Frost Bankers beats Pinnacle Financial Partners on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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