CADE vs. SHG, AFRM, BSBR, CFG, BAP, SOFI, BCH, BSAC, ALLY, and WF
Should you be buying Cadence Bank stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cadence Bank include Shinhan Financial Group (SHG), Affirm (AFRM), Banco Santander (Brasil) (BSBR), Citizens Financial Group (CFG), Credicorp (BAP), SoFi Technologies (SOFI), Banco de Chile (BCH), Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC), Ally Financial (ALLY), and Woori Financial Group (WF). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Cadence Bank vs. Its Competitors
Cadence Bank (NYSE:CADE) and Shinhan Financial Group (NYSE:SHG) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk, valuation and profitability.
Cadence Bank has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shinhan Financial Group has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Cadence Bank had 3 more articles in the media than Shinhan Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Cadence Bank and 3 mentions for Shinhan Financial Group. Shinhan Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 1.45 beat Cadence Bank's score of 0.82 indicating that Shinhan Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cadence Bank received 54 more outperform votes than Shinhan Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.59% of users gave Shinhan Financial Group an outperform vote while only 59.27% of users gave Cadence Bank an outperform vote.
84.6% of Cadence Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.8% of Shinhan Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Cadence Bank shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Shinhan Financial Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Cadence Bank pays an annual dividend of $1.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Shinhan Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $1.29 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Cadence Bank pays out 38.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Shinhan Financial Group pays out 16.8% 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. Cadence Bank has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years. Cadence Bank is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Cadence Bank currently has a consensus target price of $36.82, suggesting a potential upside of 22.87%. Given Cadence Bank's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Cadence Bank is more favorable than Shinhan Financial Group.
Cadence Bank has a net margin of 18.03% compared to Shinhan Financial Group's net margin of 12.21%. Cadence Bank's return on equity of 9.87% beat Shinhan Financial Group's return on equity.
Shinhan Financial Group has higher revenue and earnings than Cadence Bank. Shinhan Financial Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cadence Bank, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Cadence Bank beats Shinhan Financial Group on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:CADE) was last updated on 6/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff