HBAN vs. CMA, CFR, PNC, TFC, FITB, MTB, FCNCA, RF, KEY, and EWBC
Should you be buying Huntington Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Huntington Bancshares include Comerica (CMA), Cullen/Frost Bankers (CFR), The PNC Financial Services Group (PNC), Truist Financial (TFC), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), M&T Bank (MTB), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), and East West Bancorp (EWBC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Huntington Bancshares (NASDAQ:HBAN) and Comerica (NYSE:CMA) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Huntington Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Comerica pays an annual dividend of $2.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Huntington Bancshares pays out 55.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Comerica pays out 56.5% 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.
Huntington Bancshares presently has a consensus price target of $15.30, suggesting a potential upside of 9.91%. Comerica has a consensus price target of $56.89, suggesting a potential upside of 11.02%. Given Comerica's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Comerica is more favorable than Huntington Bancshares.
Comerica received 346 more outperform votes than Huntington Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.51% of users gave Comerica an outperform vote while only 51.35% of users gave Huntington Bancshares an outperform vote.
80.7% of Huntington Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.7% of Comerica shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Huntington Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Comerica shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Huntington Bancshares has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Comerica has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Huntington Bancshares had 4 more articles in the media than Comerica. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Huntington Bancshares and 8 mentions for Comerica. Huntington Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Comerica's score of 0.59 indicating that Huntington Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Huntington Bancshares has a net margin of 15.86% compared to Comerica's net margin of 13.11%. Comerica's return on equity of 16.51% beat Huntington Bancshares' return on equity.
Huntington Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than Comerica. Comerica is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Huntington Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Huntington Bancshares beats Comerica on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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