HOMB vs. HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, WAL, WBS, CBSH, CFR, and ZION
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), Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL), Webster Financial (WBS), Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), Cullen/Frost Bankers (CFR), and Zions Bancorporation, National Association (ZION). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Huntington Bancshares (NASDAQ:HBAN) and Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) (NYSE:HOMB) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, earnings and risk.
Huntington Bancshares presently has a consensus price target of $15.47, indicating a potential upside of 2.25%. Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) has a consensus price target of $27.25, indicating a potential downside of 4.49%. Given Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR)'s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Huntington Bancshares is more favorable than Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR).
Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) has a net margin of 27.29% compared to Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR)'s net margin of 14.77%. Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR)'s return on equity of 11.34% beat Huntington Bancshares' return on equity.
In the previous week, Huntington Bancshares had 24 more articles in the media than Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR). MarketBeat recorded 43 mentions for Huntington Bancshares and 19 mentions for Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR). Huntington Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR)'s score of 0.63 indicating that Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Huntington Bancshares received 66 more outperform votes than Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.48% of users gave Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) an outperform vote while only 51.55% of users gave Huntington Bancshares an outperform vote.
80.7% of Huntington Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.3% of Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Huntington Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.7% of Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
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 pays an annual dividend of $0.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Huntington Bancshares pays out 55.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) pays out 37.1% 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 increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years.
Huntington Bancshares has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Huntington Bancshares and Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) tied by winning 11 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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