PNFP vs. ZION, BOKF, SNV, CIT, HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, and WBS
Should you be buying Pinnacle Financial Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pinnacle Financial Partners include Zions Bancorporation, National Association (ZION), BOK Financial (BOKF), Synovus Financial (SNV), CIT Group (CIT), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), and Webster Financial (WBS). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Zions Bancorporation, National Association (NASDAQ:ZION) and Pinnacle Financial Partners (NASDAQ:PNFP) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking and earnings.
Zions Bancorporation, National Association currently has a consensus target price of $43.33, suggesting a potential upside of 0.33%. Pinnacle Financial Partners has a consensus target price of $94.63, suggesting a potential upside of 19.01%. Given Zions Bancorporation, National Association's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Pinnacle Financial Partners is more favorable than Zions Bancorporation, National Association.
Zions Bancorporation, National Association has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pinnacle Financial Partners has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
76.8% of Zions Bancorporation, National Association shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.4% of Pinnacle Financial Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of Zions Bancorporation, National Association shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Pinnacle Financial Partners 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.
Zions Bancorporation, National Association pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Pinnacle Financial Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Zions Bancorporation, National Association pays out 41.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pinnacle Financial Partners pays out 12.6% 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. Zions Bancorporation, National Association has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years. Zions Bancorporation, National Association is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Zions Bancorporation, National Association had 5 more articles in the media than Pinnacle Financial Partners. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Zions Bancorporation, National Association and 3 mentions for Pinnacle Financial Partners. Zions Bancorporation, National Association's average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat Pinnacle Financial Partners' score of 1.30 indicating that Pinnacle Financial Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Pinnacle Financial Partners has a net margin of 18.59% compared to Pinnacle Financial Partners' net margin of 13.23%. Pinnacle Financial Partners' return on equity of 14.05% beat Zions Bancorporation, National Association's return on equity.
Zions Bancorporation, National Association received 300 more outperform votes than Pinnacle Financial Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.66% of users gave Pinnacle Financial Partners an outperform vote while only 54.22% of users gave Zions Bancorporation, National Association an outperform vote.
Zions Bancorporation, National Association has higher revenue and earnings than Pinnacle Financial Partners. Zions Bancorporation, National Association is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pinnacle Financial Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Pinnacle Financial Partners beats Zions Bancorporation, National Association on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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