MTB vs. FITB, FCNCA, EWBC, CBSH, WAL, BPOP, WTFC, STT, NTRS, and CFG
Should you be buying M&T Bank stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of M&T Bank include Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), East West Bancorp (EWBC), Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL), Popular (BPOP), Wintrust Financial (WTFC), State Street (STT), Northern Trust (NTRS), and Citizens Financial Group (CFG). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ:FITB) and M&T Bank (NYSE:MTB) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, earnings, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Fifth Third Bancorp has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, M&T Bank has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
M&T Bank has a net margin of 19.52% compared to M&T Bank's net margin of 17.70%. M&T Bank's return on equity of 16.11% beat Fifth Third Bancorp's return on equity.
Fifth Third Bancorp received 507 more outperform votes than M&T Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.12% of users gave Fifth Third Bancorp an outperform vote while only 46.39% of users gave M&T Bank an outperform vote.
M&T Bank has higher revenue and earnings than Fifth Third Bancorp. M&T Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fifth Third Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Fifth Third Bancorp had 12 more articles in the media than M&T Bank. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for Fifth Third Bancorp and 22 mentions for M&T Bank. M&T Bank's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Fifth Third Bancorp's score of 0.39 indicating that Fifth Third Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Fifth Third Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $36.31, suggesting a potential downside of 1.38%. M&T Bank has a consensus target price of $158.48, suggesting a potential upside of 7.88%. Given Fifth Third Bancorp's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe M&T Bank is more favorable than Fifth Third Bancorp.
Fifth Third Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. M&T Bank pays an annual dividend of $5.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Fifth Third Bancorp pays out 44.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. M&T Bank pays out 35.2% 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 13 consecutive years and M&T Bank has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Fifth Third Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
83.8% of Fifth Third Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.7% of M&T Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Fifth Third Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of M&T Bank shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Fifth Third Bancorp beats M&T Bank on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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