CFG vs. FITB, HBAN, ZION, FNB, KEY, PNC, RF, TFC, WBS, and BMO
Should you be buying Citizens Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Citizens Financial Group include Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Zions Bancorporation, N.A. (ZION), F.N.B. (FNB), KeyCorp (KEY), The PNC Financial Services Group (PNC), Regions Financial (RF), Truist Financial (TFC), Webster Financial (WBS), and Bank Of Montreal (BMO). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Citizens Financial Group vs. Its Competitors
Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ:FITB) and Citizens Financial Group (NYSE:CFG) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.
Fifth Third Bancorp has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Citizens Financial Group has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Fifth Third Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Citizens Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Fifth Third Bancorp pays out 46.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Citizens Financial Group pays out 51.1% 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. Fifth Third Bancorp has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years. Fifth Third Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Fifth Third Bancorp had 17 more articles in the media than Citizens Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Fifth Third Bancorp and 23 mentions for Citizens Financial Group. Citizens Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Fifth Third Bancorp's score of 0.50 indicating that Citizens Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Fifth Third Bancorp has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Citizens Financial Group. Fifth Third Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Citizens Financial Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fifth Third Bancorp has a net margin of 17.97% compared to Citizens Financial Group's net margin of 13.26%. Fifth Third Bancorp's return on equity of 13.31% beat Citizens Financial Group's return on equity.
Fifth Third Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $48.33, indicating a potential upside of 6.09%. Citizens Financial Group has a consensus target price of $52.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.35%. Given Fifth Third Bancorp's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Fifth Third Bancorp is more favorable than Citizens Financial Group.
83.8% of Fifth Third Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.9% of Citizens Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Fifth Third Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Citizens Financial Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Fifth Third Bancorp beats Citizens Financial Group on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE 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 (NYSE:CFG) was last updated on 9/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
