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STT vs. FITB, HBAN, NTRS, AMP, BAC, BK, PFG, PNC, PRU, and RF

Should you be buying State Street stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of State Street include Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Northern Trust (NTRS), Ameriprise Financial (AMP), Bank of America (BAC), Bank of New York Mellon (BK), Principal Financial Group (PFG), The PNC Financial Services Group (PNC), Prudential Financial (PRU), and Regions Financial (RF). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

State Street vs. Its Competitors

Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ:FITB) and State Street (NYSE:STT) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability and media sentiment.

State Street has higher revenue and earnings than Fifth Third Bancorp. State Street 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Fifth Third Bancorp$13.28B2.18$2.31B$3.2213.57
State Street$13.34B2.48$2.69B$8.9313.05

Fifth Third Bancorp presently has a consensus price target of $50.35, indicating a potential upside of 15.21%. State Street has a consensus price target of $122.83, indicating a potential upside of 5.41%. Given Fifth Third Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Fifth Third Bancorp is more favorable than State Street.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Fifth Third Bancorp
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
14 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.90
State Street
1 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
10 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.81

Fifth Third Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. State Street pays an annual dividend of $3.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Fifth Third Bancorp pays out 49.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. State Street pays out 37.6% 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 State Street has raised its dividend for 13 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, 87.4% of State Street shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Fifth Third Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of State Street shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Fifth Third Bancorp had 4 more articles in the media than State Street. MarketBeat recorded 56 mentions for Fifth Third Bancorp and 52 mentions for State Street. State Street's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Fifth Third Bancorp's score of 0.83 indicating that State Street is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Fifth Third Bancorp
25 Very Positive mention(s)
7 Positive mention(s)
16 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
State Street
15 Very Positive mention(s)
8 Positive mention(s)
8 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Fifth Third Bancorp has a net margin of 17.97% compared to State Street's net margin of 12.59%. Fifth Third Bancorp's return on equity of 13.31% beat State Street's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Fifth Third Bancorp17.97% 13.31% 1.15%
State Street 12.59%12.96%0.83%

Fifth Third Bancorp has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, State Street has a beta of 1.46, meaning that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Fifth Third Bancorp beats State Street on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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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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STT vs. The Competition

MetricState StreetBANKS IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$33.06B$35.82B$12.72B$21.92B
Dividend Yield2.92%3.46%5.51%3.56%
P/E Ratio13.0513.4830.2729.61
Price / Sales2.482.5130.4799.18
Price / Cash9.9410.8519.7218.33
Price / Book1.521.502.294.60
Net Income$2.69B$2.60B$1.02B$1.01B
7 Day Performance0.44%0.71%0.29%0.11%
1 Month Performance3.13%1.05%0.67%2.22%
1 Year Performance33.22%21.13%541.26%13.68%

State Street Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
STT
State Street
4.8227 of 5 stars
$116.53
-0.3%
$122.83
+5.4%
+34.0%$33.06B$13.34B13.0553,000Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
FITB
Fifth Third Bancorp
4.9143 of 5 stars
$45.40
-0.1%
$48.87
+7.6%
+4.0%$30.05B$13.28B14.1018,616Trending News
Analyst Forecast
HBAN
Huntington Bancshares
4.9878 of 5 stars
$17.35
-0.4%
$19.05
+9.8%
+14.3%$25.31B$11.96B12.8519,932Positive News
NTRS
Northern Trust
3.7989 of 5 stars
$133.90
+0.4%
$121.67
-9.1%
+46.2%$25.61B$16.06B15.7323,300Positive News
Analyst Revision
AMP
Ameriprise Financial
4.6943 of 5 stars
$499.03
-0.1%
$544.50
+9.1%
+1.4%$47.04B$17.26B15.5313,600Positive News
BAC
Bank of America
4.9213 of 5 stars
$52.36
+0.3%
$51.82
-1.0%
+25.6%$387.83B$192.43B15.31213,000Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
BK
Bank of New York Mellon
4.752 of 5 stars
$109.72
+0.2%
$99.25
-9.5%
+47.9%$77.38B$39.91B16.7551,800Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
PFG
Principal Financial Group
3.8778 of 5 stars
$82.47
-0.2%
$86.90
+5.4%
-3.6%$18.37B$15.13B12.3519,300Positive News
Analyst Forecast
PNC
The PNC Financial Services Group
4.9314 of 5 stars
$201.79
-0.8%
$216.28
+7.2%
+7.4%$79.47B$34.44B13.8055,184Positive News
Dividend Announcement
PRU
Prudential Financial
4.9007 of 5 stars
$103.73
-0.7%
$122.08
+17.7%
-16.1%$36.51B$68.05B23.0038,196Positive News
RF
Regions Financial
4.9393 of 5 stars
$26.50
-0.5%
$27.74
+4.7%
+13.2%$23.64B$9.37B12.3219,644Positive News

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