BPOP vs. WTFC, PB, SSB, OZK, FITB, MTB, HBAN, RF, KEY, and EWBC
Should you be buying Popular stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Popular include Wintrust Financial (WTFC), Prosperity Bancshares (PB), SouthState (SSB), Bank OZK (OZK), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), M&T Bank (MTB), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), and East West Bancorp (EWBC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Popular (NASDAQ:BPOP) and Wintrust Financial (NASDAQ:WTFC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, earnings and media sentiment.
Popular currently has a consensus target price of $99.89, suggesting a potential upside of 12.22%. Wintrust Financial has a consensus target price of $112.33, suggesting a potential upside of 13.92%. Given Wintrust Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Wintrust Financial is more favorable than Popular.
87.3% of Popular shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.5% of Wintrust Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of Popular shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Wintrust Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Popular has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wintrust Financial has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Popular had 10 more articles in the media than Wintrust Financial. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Popular and 3 mentions for Wintrust Financial. Wintrust Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat Popular's score of 0.84 indicating that Wintrust Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Wintrust Financial has a net margin of 17.86% compared to Popular's net margin of 11.95%. Wintrust Financial's return on equity of 13.09% beat Popular's return on equity.
Wintrust Financial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Popular. Wintrust Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Popular, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Wintrust Financial received 14 more outperform votes than Popular when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.11% of users gave Popular an outperform vote while only 61.50% of users gave Wintrust Financial an outperform vote.
Popular pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Wintrust Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Popular pays out 36.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Wintrust Financial pays out 18.6% 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.
Summary
Wintrust Financial beats Popular on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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