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

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 Stifel Financial (SF). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

State Street vs. Its Competitors

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

87.4% of State Street shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.8% of Fifth Third Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of State Street shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Fifth Third Bancorp shares are held by company 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.

In the previous week, State Street had 10 more articles in the media than Fifth Third Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for State Street and 24 mentions for Fifth Third Bancorp. State Street's average media sentiment score of 1.41 beat Fifth Third Bancorp's score of 1.36 indicating that State Street is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
State Street
27 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Fifth Third Bancorp
22 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

State Street currently has a consensus target price of $112.82, suggesting a potential downside of 1.11%. Fifth Third Bancorp has a consensus target price of $47.80, suggesting a potential upside of 3.33%. Given Fifth Third Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Fifth Third Bancorp is more favorable than State Street.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
State Street
1 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50
Fifth Third Bancorp
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
10 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.82

State Street pays an annual dividend of $3.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Fifth Third Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. State Street pays out 37.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fifth Third Bancorp pays out 46.0% 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. State Street has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years and Fifth Third Bancorp has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years. Fifth Third Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

State Street has a beta of 1.5, meaning that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fifth Third Bancorp has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.

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
State Street$13.34B2.43$2.69B$8.9312.78
Fifth Third Bancorp$8.45B3.62$2.31B$3.2214.37

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
State Street12.59% 12.96% 0.83%
Fifth Third Bancorp 17.97%13.31%1.15%

Summary

Fifth Third Bancorp beats State Street on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding STT and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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$32.37B$36.41B$12.53B$21.30B
Dividend Yield2.64%3.28%5.42%3.49%
P/E Ratio12.7813.47230.6629.44
Price / Sales2.432.5831.7864.27
Price / Cash9.8211.0019.0618.29
Price / Book1.361.412.345.30
Net Income$2.69B$2.60B$1.01B$998.51M
7 Day Performance-1.00%0.02%0.11%0.12%
1 Month Performance3.91%7.01%3.71%5.75%
1 Year Performance32.80%22.85%542.65%14.88%

State Street Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
STT
State Street
4.8775 of 5 stars
$114.09
+1.0%
$112.82
-1.1%
+31.2%$32.37B$13.34B12.7853,000Positive News
FITB
Fifth Third Bancorp
4.488 of 5 stars
$44.36
-1.0%
$47.80
+7.8%
+7.3%$29.36B$13.28B13.7818,616Positive News
HBAN
Huntington Bancshares
4.8702 of 5 stars
$17.29
-0.4%
$18.68
+8.1%
+19.1%$25.22B$11.96B12.8119,932News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
NTRS
Northern Trust
4.1277 of 5 stars
$130.61
+0.4%
$117.08
-10.4%
+44.1%$24.98B$16.06B15.3523,300Positive News
AMP
Ameriprise Financial
4.449 of 5 stars
$511.33
-1.1%
$534.71
+4.6%
+14.6%$48.20B$17.26B15.9113,600Positive News
BAC
Bank of America
4.8956 of 5 stars
$49.53
+0.1%
$50.13
+1.2%
+22.9%$366.87B$104.52B14.48213,000Trending News
Options Volume
BK
Bank of New York Mellon
4.7636 of 5 stars
$103.07
+0.5%
$95.08
-7.8%
+54.0%$72.69B$18.97B15.7451,800Positive News
PFG
Principal Financial Group
4.0276 of 5 stars
$80.28
-0.5%
$86.90
+8.2%
-1.2%$17.88B$15.13B12.0219,300Positive News
Analyst Revision
PNC
The PNC Financial Services Group
4.8073 of 5 stars
$200.81
-0.4%
$214.17
+6.7%
+11.1%$79.08B$22.10B13.7355,184Positive News
PRU
Prudential Financial
4.8179 of 5 stars
$109.17
-0.7%
$122.08
+11.8%
-11.1%$38.43B$68.05B24.2138,196Positive News
Insider Trade
SF
Stifel Financial
4.1615 of 5 stars
$115.31
+0.9%
$115.78
+0.4%
+32.9%$11.78B$4.97B22.359,000Positive News
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This page (NYSE:STT) was last updated on 9/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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