WTFC vs. MTB, FITB, FCNCA, HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, SSB, and WBS
Should you be buying Wintrust Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wintrust 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.
Wintrust Financial vs. Its Competitors
M&T Bank (NYSE:MTB) and Wintrust Financial (NASDAQ:WTFC) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends and institutional ownership.
Wintrust Financial received 231 more outperform votes than M&T Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.15% of users gave Wintrust Financial an outperform vote while only 46.26% of users gave M&T Bank an outperform vote.
M&T Bank has a net margin of 19.24% compared to Wintrust Financial's net margin of 17.52%. Wintrust Financial's return on equity of 12.60% beat M&T Bank's return on equity.
M&T Bank has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wintrust Financial has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
M&T Bank pays an annual dividend of $5.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Wintrust Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. M&T Bank pays out 36.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Wintrust Financial pays out 19.8% 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. Wintrust Financial has increased its dividend for 12 consecutive years.
M&T Bank has higher revenue and earnings than Wintrust Financial. Wintrust Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than M&T Bank, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
84.7% of M&T Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.5% of Wintrust Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of M&T Bank shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Wintrust Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
M&T Bank currently has a consensus price target of $212.53, suggesting a potential upside of 15.16%. Wintrust Financial has a consensus price target of $135.77, suggesting a potential upside of 12.22%. Given M&T Bank's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe M&T Bank is more favorable than Wintrust Financial.
In the previous week, M&T Bank had 3 more articles in the media than Wintrust Financial. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for M&T Bank and 8 mentions for Wintrust Financial. Wintrust Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.73 beat M&T Bank's score of 0.96 indicating that Wintrust Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Wintrust Financial beats M&T Bank on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NASDAQ:WTFC) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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