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 better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
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.
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.
In the previous week, Huntington Bancshares had 3 more articles in the media than Comerica. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Huntington Bancshares and 8 mentions for Comerica. Huntington Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Comerica's score of 0.49 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.
80.7% of Huntington Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.7% of Comerica shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Huntington Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Comerica 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.
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.
Huntington Bancshares has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Comerica has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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