CFR vs. MTB, FITB, FCNCA, HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, SSB, and WBS
Should you be buying Cullen/Frost Bankers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cullen/Frost Bankers 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.
Cullen/Frost Bankers vs.
M&T Bank (NYSE:MTB) and Cullen/Frost Bankers (NYSE:CFR) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
M&T Bank currently has a consensus target price of $212.53, suggesting a potential upside of 14.38%. Cullen/Frost Bankers has a consensus target price of $131.93, suggesting a potential upside of 2.21%. Given M&T Bank's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe M&T Bank is more favorable than Cullen/Frost Bankers.
Cullen/Frost Bankers received 85 more outperform votes than M&T Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 46.26% of users gave M&T Bank an outperform vote while only 38.72% of users gave Cullen/Frost Bankers an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Cullen/Frost Bankers had 2 more articles in the media than M&T Bank. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Cullen/Frost Bankers and 12 mentions for M&T Bank. M&T Bank's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Cullen/Frost Bankers' score of 0.35 indicating that M&T Bank is being referred to more favorably in the media.
M&T Bank pays an annual dividend of $5.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Cullen/Frost Bankers pays an annual dividend of $4.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. M&T Bank pays out 36.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cullen/Frost Bankers pays out 43.9% 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. 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.
84.7% of M&T Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.9% of Cullen/Frost Bankers shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of M&T Bank shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Cullen/Frost Bankers shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
M&T Bank has a beta of 0.62, suggesting that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cullen/Frost Bankers has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Cullen/Frost Bankers has a net margin of 20.44% compared to M&T Bank's net margin of 19.24%. Cullen/Frost Bankers' return on equity of 15.95% beat M&T Bank's return on equity.
M&T Bank has higher revenue and earnings than Cullen/Frost Bankers. M&T Bank 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.
Summary
Cullen/Frost Bankers beats M&T Bank on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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