PB vs. FITB, FCNCA, HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, SSB, WBS, and CBSH
Should you be buying Prosperity Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Prosperity Bancshares include 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), Webster Financial (WBS), and Commerce Bancshares (CBSH). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Prosperity Bancshares vs. Its Competitors
Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ:FITB) and Prosperity Bancshares (NYSE:PB) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends and profitability.
Fifth Third Bancorp received 438 more outperform votes than Prosperity Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.88% of users gave Fifth Third Bancorp an outperform vote while only 46.92% of users gave Prosperity Bancshares an outperform vote.
Fifth Third Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Prosperity Bancshares. Fifth Third Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Prosperity Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fifth Third Bancorp has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Prosperity Bancshares has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Fifth Third Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Prosperity Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $2.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Fifth Third Bancorp pays out 47.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Prosperity Bancshares pays out 44.2% 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 14 consecutive years and Prosperity Bancshares has raised its dividend for 27 consecutive years.
Fifth Third Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $47.53, indicating a potential upside of 21.93%. Prosperity Bancshares has a consensus price target of $83.80, indicating a potential upside of 20.25%. Given Fifth Third Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Fifth Third Bancorp is more favorable than Prosperity Bancshares.
83.8% of Fifth Third Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.7% of Prosperity Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Fifth Third Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Prosperity Bancshares shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Prosperity Bancshares has a net margin of 26.79% compared to Fifth Third Bancorp's net margin of 17.43%. Fifth Third Bancorp's return on equity of 14.10% beat Prosperity Bancshares' return on equity.
In the previous week, Fifth Third Bancorp had 15 more articles in the media than Prosperity Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Fifth Third Bancorp and 9 mentions for Prosperity Bancshares. Prosperity Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Fifth Third Bancorp's score of 0.99 indicating that Prosperity Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Fifth Third Bancorp beats Prosperity Bancshares on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NYSE:PB) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
