UMBF vs. MTB, FITB, FCNCA, HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, SSB, and WBS
Should you be buying UMB Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UMB Financial 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.
UMB Financial vs. Its Competitors
UMB Financial (NASDAQ:UMBF) and M&T Bank (NYSE:MTB) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, profitability, risk, media sentiment and valuation.
UMB Financial has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its stock price is 25% less 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.
M&T Bank has a net margin of 19.24% compared to UMB Financial's net margin of 15.76%. UMB Financial's return on equity of 13.73% beat M&T Bank's return on equity.
UMB Financial received 18 more outperform votes than M&T Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 46.57% of users gave UMB Financial an outperform vote while only 46.26% of users gave M&T Bank an outperform vote.
87.8% of UMB Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.7% of M&T Bank shares are held by institutional investors. 5.5% of UMB Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of M&T Bank shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
UMB Financial currently has a consensus price target of $123.13, indicating a potential upside of 17.43%. M&T Bank has a consensus price target of $212.53, indicating a potential upside of 15.16%. Given UMB Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe UMB Financial is more favorable than M&T Bank.
UMB Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. M&T Bank pays an annual dividend of $5.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. UMB Financial pays out 20.1% 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. UMB Financial has raised its dividend for 32 consecutive years.
M&T Bank has higher revenue and earnings than UMB Financial. M&T Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UMB Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, UMB Financial and UMB Financial both had 11 articles in the media. UMB Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.56 beat M&T Bank's score of 0.96 indicating that UMB Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
UMB Financial beats M&T Bank on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NASDAQ:UMBF) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
