CFR vs. EWBC, HBAN, HWC, SSB, WTFC, ASB, CFG, FNB, RF, and WBS
Should you be buying Cullen/Frost Bankers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cullen/Frost Bankers include East West Bancorp (EWBC), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Hancock Whitney (HWC), SouthState (SSB), Wintrust Financial (WTFC), Associated Banc (ASB), Citizens Financial Group (CFG), F.N.B. (FNB), Regions Financial (RF), and Webster Financial (WBS). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Cullen/Frost Bankers vs. Its Competitors
East West Bancorp (NASDAQ:EWBC) and Cullen/Frost Bankers (NYSE:CFR) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
East West Bancorp has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cullen/Frost Bankers has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
East West Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Cullen/Frost Bankers. East West Bancorp 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.
89.5% of East West Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.9% of Cullen/Frost Bankers shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of East West Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Cullen/Frost Bankers shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
East West Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $116.64, indicating a potential upside of 7.06%. Cullen/Frost Bankers has a consensus target price of $134.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.44%. Given East West Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe East West Bancorp is more favorable than Cullen/Frost Bankers.
East West Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Cullen/Frost Bankers pays an annual dividend of $4.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. East West Bancorp pays out 28.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cullen/Frost Bankers pays out 43.1% 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. East West Bancorp has increased its dividend for 8 consecutive years and Cullen/Frost Bankers has increased its dividend for 32 consecutive years. Cullen/Frost Bankers is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
East West Bancorp has a net margin of 26.06% compared to Cullen/Frost Bankers' net margin of 21.20%. Cullen/Frost Bankers' return on equity of 15.46% beat East West Bancorp's return on equity.
In the previous week, East West Bancorp had 5 more articles in the media than Cullen/Frost Bankers. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for East West Bancorp and 7 mentions for Cullen/Frost Bankers. East West Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Cullen/Frost Bankers' score of 1.03 indicating that East West Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
East West Bancorp beats Cullen/Frost Bankers on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:CFR) was last updated on 9/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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