WAL vs. MTB, FITB, FCNCA, HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, CBSH, and WBS
Should you be buying Western Alliance Bancorporation stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Western Alliance Bancorporation include M&T Bank (MTB), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), and Webster Financial (WBS). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Western Alliance Bancorporation (NYSE:WAL) and M&T Bank (NYSE:MTB) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Western Alliance Bancorporation received 280 more outperform votes than M&T Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.28% of users gave Western Alliance Bancorporation an outperform vote while only 46.20% of users gave M&T Bank an outperform vote.
Western Alliance Bancorporation currently has a consensus target price of $84.27, suggesting a potential upside of 4.34%. M&T Bank has a consensus target price of $170.35, suggesting a potential downside of 2.15%. Given Western Alliance Bancorporation's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Western Alliance Bancorporation is more favorable than M&T Bank.
Western Alliance Bancorporation pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. M&T Bank pays an annual dividend of $5.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Western Alliance Bancorporation pays out 21.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. M&T Bank pays out 36.5% 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.
M&T Bank has a net margin of 17.84% compared to Western Alliance Bancorporation's net margin of 15.54%. Western Alliance Bancorporation's return on equity of 14.18% beat M&T Bank's return on equity.
Western Alliance Bancorporation has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, M&T Bank has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Western Alliance Bancorporation had 3 more articles in the media than M&T Bank. MarketBeat recorded 51 mentions for Western Alliance Bancorporation and 48 mentions for M&T Bank. Western Alliance Bancorporation's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat M&T Bank's score of 0.54 indicating that Western Alliance Bancorporation is being referred to more favorably in the media.
79.2% of Western Alliance Bancorporation shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.7% of M&T Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.8% of Western Alliance Bancorporation shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of M&T Bank shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
M&T Bank has higher revenue and earnings than Western Alliance Bancorporation. M&T Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Western Alliance Bancorporation, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Western Alliance Bancorporation beats M&T Bank on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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