SNV vs. HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, WBS, CBSH, WAL, CFR, and BPOP
Should you be buying Synovus Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Synovus Financial include Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), Webster Financial (WBS), Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL), Cullen/Frost Bankers (CFR), and Popular (BPOP). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Synovus Financial (NYSE:SNV) and Huntington Bancshares (NASDAQ:HBAN) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Synovus Financial has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Huntington Bancshares has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Synovus Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Huntington Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Synovus Financial pays out 52.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Huntington Bancshares pays out 55.9% 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.
83.9% of Synovus Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.7% of Huntington Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Synovus Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Huntington Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Huntington Bancshares has a net margin of 15.86% compared to Synovus Financial's net margin of 13.29%. Synovus Financial's return on equity of 12.93% beat Huntington Bancshares' return on equity.
Synovus Financial presently has a consensus price target of $41.50, suggesting a potential upside of 13.51%. Huntington Bancshares has a consensus price target of $15.13, suggesting a potential upside of 22.64%. Given Huntington Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Huntington Bancshares is more favorable than Synovus Financial.
Huntington Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than Synovus Financial. Huntington Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Synovus Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Huntington Bancshares received 122 more outperform votes than Synovus Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.86% of users gave Synovus Financial an outperform vote while only 51.38% of users gave Huntington Bancshares an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Huntington Bancshares had 18 more articles in the media than Synovus Financial. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Huntington Bancshares and 14 mentions for Synovus Financial. Synovus Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Huntington Bancshares' score of 0.43 indicating that Synovus Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Huntington Bancshares beats Synovus Financial on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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