FULT vs. BANF, WSFS, CSFL, WAFD, SFNC, EWBC, FHN, WBS, CBSH, and WAL
Should you be buying Fulton Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fulton Financial include BancFirst (BANF), WSFS Financial (WSFS), Centerstate Bank (CSFL), WaFd (WAFD), Simmons First National (SFNC), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), Webster Financial (WBS), Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), and Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
BancFirst (NASDAQ:BANF) and Fulton Financial (NASDAQ:FULT) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, risk, earnings and valuation.
BancFirst has a net margin of 24.65% compared to BancFirst's net margin of 18.31%. Fulton Financial's return on equity of 14.62% beat BancFirst's return on equity.
Fulton Financial has higher revenue and earnings than BancFirst. Fulton Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BancFirst, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BancFirst has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fulton Financial has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
BancFirst currently has a consensus price target of $85.50, suggesting a potential downside of 0.75%. Fulton Financial has a consensus price target of $18.00, suggesting a potential upside of 6.89%. Given BancFirst's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Fulton Financial is more favorable than BancFirst.
51.7% of BancFirst shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.0% of Fulton Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 33.9% of BancFirst shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Fulton Financial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
BancFirst pays an annual dividend of $1.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Fulton Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. BancFirst pays out 28.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fulton Financial pays out 42.2% 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. BancFirst has increased its dividend for 30 consecutive years and Fulton Financial has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
In the previous week, BancFirst had 4 more articles in the media than Fulton Financial. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for BancFirst and 5 mentions for Fulton Financial. Fulton Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat BancFirst's score of 1.11 indicating that BancFirst is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Fulton Financial received 50 more outperform votes than BancFirst when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 54.32% of users gave BancFirst an outperform vote while only 46.00% of users gave Fulton Financial an outperform vote.
Summary
BancFirst beats Fulton Financial on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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