PNC vs. TFC, FITB, FCNCA, MTB, HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, and WBS
Should you be buying The PNC Financial Services Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of The PNC Financial Services Group include Truist Financial (TFC), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), M&T Bank (MTB), 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.
The PNC Financial Services Group (NYSE:PNC) and Truist Financial (NYSE:TFC) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and profitability.
The PNC Financial Services Group has a net margin of 16.05% compared to Truist Financial's net margin of -4.28%. The PNC Financial Services Group's return on equity of 11.64% beat Truist Financial's return on equity.
The PNC Financial Services Group pays an annual dividend of $6.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Truist Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. The PNC Financial Services Group pays out 52.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Truist Financial pays out -157.6% 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. Truist Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, The PNC Financial Services Group had 4 more articles in the media than Truist Financial. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for The PNC Financial Services Group and 6 mentions for Truist Financial. The PNC Financial Services Group's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Truist Financial's score of 0.00 indicating that The PNC Financial Services Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Truist Financial received 14 more outperform votes than The PNC Financial Services Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.25% of users gave The PNC Financial Services Group an outperform vote while only 55.53% of users gave Truist Financial an outperform vote.
The PNC Financial Services Group presently has a consensus target price of $157.02, indicating a potential downside of 0.23%. Truist Financial has a consensus target price of $43.17, indicating a potential upside of 14.37%. Given Truist Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Truist Financial is more favorable than The PNC Financial Services Group.
The PNC Financial Services Group has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Truist Financial has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
The PNC Financial Services Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Truist Financial. Truist Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The PNC Financial Services Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
83.5% of The PNC Financial Services Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.3% of Truist Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of The PNC Financial Services Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Truist Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
The PNC Financial Services Group beats Truist Financial on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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