WBS vs. MTB, FITB, FCNCA, HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, SSB, and CBSH
Should you be buying Webster Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Webster Financial 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), SouthState (SSB), and Commerce Bancshares (CBSH). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Webster Financial vs. Its Competitors
Webster Financial (NYSE:WBS) and M&T Bank (NYSE:MTB) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk and institutional ownership.
M&T Bank has higher revenue and earnings than Webster Financial. Webster Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than M&T Bank, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
85.6% of Webster Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.7% of M&T Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Webster Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of M&T Bank shares are owned 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.
Webster Financial received 281 more outperform votes than M&T Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.91% of users gave Webster Financial an outperform vote while only 46.28% of users gave M&T Bank an outperform vote.
M&T Bank has a net margin of 19.86% compared to Webster Financial's net margin of 18.58%. Webster Financial's return on equity of 10.57% beat M&T Bank's return on equity.
In the previous week, M&T Bank had 19 more articles in the media than Webster Financial. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for M&T Bank and 2 mentions for Webster Financial. M&T Bank's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Webster Financial's score of -0.20 indicating that M&T Bank is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Webster Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. M&T Bank pays an annual dividend of $5.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Webster Financial pays out 36.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. M&T Bank pays out 36.2% 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. Webster Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Webster Financial has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, M&T Bank has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Webster Financial currently has a consensus target price of $63.75, indicating a potential upside of 19.93%. M&T Bank has a consensus target price of $210.88, indicating a potential upside of 11.22%. Given Webster Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Webster Financial is more favorable than M&T Bank.
Summary
Webster Financial beats M&T Bank on 12 of the 21 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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This page (NYSE:WBS) was last updated on 6/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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