KEY vs. TFC, FITB, FCNCA, MTB, HBAN, RF, EWBC, FHN, WBS, and CBSH
Should you be buying KeyCorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of KeyCorp include Truist Financial (TFC), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), M&T Bank (MTB), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), Webster Financial (WBS), and Commerce Bancshares (CBSH). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Truist Financial (NYSE:TFC) and KeyCorp (NYSE:KEY) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, profitability, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, KeyCorp had 12 more articles in the media than Truist Financial. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for KeyCorp and 2 mentions for Truist Financial. Truist Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat KeyCorp's score of 0.25 indicating that KeyCorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
71.3% of Truist Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.7% of KeyCorp shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Truist Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of KeyCorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Truist Financial presently has a consensus target price of $43.17, indicating a potential upside of 20.90%. KeyCorp has a consensus target price of $15.97, indicating a potential upside of 19.71%. Given KeyCorp's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Truist Financial is more favorable than KeyCorp.
KeyCorp has a net margin of 7.53% compared to KeyCorp's net margin of -4.28%. KeyCorp's return on equity of 9.15% beat Truist Financial's return on equity.
KeyCorp received 307 more outperform votes than Truist Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.66% of users gave KeyCorp an outperform vote while only 55.34% of users gave Truist Financial an outperform vote.
Truist Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. KeyCorp pays an annual dividend of $0.82 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. Truist Financial pays out -157.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. KeyCorp pays out 103.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Truist Financial has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years and KeyCorp has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years.
Truist Financial has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KeyCorp has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
KeyCorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Truist Financial. Truist Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than KeyCorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
KeyCorp beats Truist Financial on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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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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