PB vs. HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, WBS, CBSH, WAL, CFR, and BPOP
Should you be buying Prosperity Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Prosperity Bancshares include Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), Webster Financial (WBS), Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL), Cullen/Frost Bankers (CFR), and Popular (BPOP). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Huntington Bancshares (NASDAQ:HBAN) and Prosperity Bancshares (NYSE:PB) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and dividends.
Prosperity Bancshares has a net margin of 24.50% compared to Prosperity Bancshares' net margin of 15.86%. Prosperity Bancshares' return on equity of 11.99% beat Huntington Bancshares' return on equity.
Huntington Bancshares received 244 more outperform votes than Prosperity Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.35% of users gave Huntington Bancshares an outperform vote while only 47.54% of users gave Prosperity Bancshares an outperform vote.
Huntington Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Prosperity Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $2.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Huntington Bancshares pays out 55.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Prosperity Bancshares pays out 51.6% 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.
Huntington Bancshares currently has a consensus target price of $15.30, suggesting a potential upside of 20.57%. Prosperity Bancshares has a consensus target price of $68.86, suggesting a potential upside of 18.32%. Given Prosperity Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Huntington Bancshares is more favorable than Prosperity Bancshares.
In the previous week, Huntington Bancshares had 10 more articles in the media than Prosperity Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Huntington Bancshares and 6 mentions for Prosperity Bancshares. Huntington Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Prosperity Bancshares' score of 0.79 indicating that Prosperity Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Huntington Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than Prosperity Bancshares. Huntington Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Prosperity Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
80.7% of Huntington Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.7% of Prosperity Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Huntington Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Prosperity Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Huntington Bancshares has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Prosperity Bancshares has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Huntington Bancshares beats Prosperity Bancshares on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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