HOMB vs. HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, SSB, WBS, CBSH, WAL, and PNFP
Should you be buying Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) include Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), SouthState (SSB), Webster Financial (WBS), Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL), and Pinnacle Financial Partners (PNFP). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) vs.
Huntington Bancshares (NASDAQ:HBAN) and Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) (NYSE:HOMB) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, risk and analyst recommendations.
Huntington Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR). Huntington Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR), indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Huntington Bancshares has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Huntington Bancshares received 87 more outperform votes than Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.93% of users gave Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) an outperform vote while only 51.75% of users gave Huntington Bancshares an outperform vote.
Huntington Bancshares currently has a consensus target price of $17.83, indicating a potential upside of 16.19%. Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) has a consensus target price of $32.40, indicating a potential upside of 14.81%. Given Huntington Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Huntington Bancshares is more favorable than Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR).
In the previous week, Huntington Bancshares had 11 more articles in the media than Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR). MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Huntington Bancshares and 6 mentions for Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR). Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR)'s average media sentiment score of 1.48 beat Huntington Bancshares' score of 1.33 indicating that Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Huntington Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Huntington Bancshares pays out 47.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) pays out 38.1% 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. Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) has raised its dividend for 15 consecutive years.
80.7% of Huntington Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.3% of Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Huntington Bancshares shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.3% of Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) shares are held by 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.
Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) has a net margin of 27.39% compared to Huntington Bancshares' net margin of 16.23%. Huntington Bancshares' return on equity of 11.23% beat Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR)'s return on equity.
Summary
Huntington Bancshares beats Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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