VLY vs. UMBF, CBU, STL, CIT, KEY, FHN, WBS, CMA, CFR, and ZION
Should you be buying Valley National Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Valley National Bancorp include UMB Financial (UMBF), Community Bank System (CBU), Sterling Bancorp (STL), CIT Group (CIT), KeyCorp (KEY), First Horizon (FHN), Webster Financial (WBS), Comerica (CMA), Cullen/Frost Bankers (CFR), and Zions Bancorporation, National Association (ZION). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Valley National Bancorp (NASDAQ:VLY) and UMB Financial (NASDAQ:UMBF) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, valuation, risk, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings and institutional ownership.
61.0% of Valley National Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.8% of UMB Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of Valley National Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.9% of UMB Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Valley National Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $9.33, suggesting a potential upside of 37.05%. UMB Financial has a consensus target price of $92.00, suggesting a potential upside of 17.11%. Given Valley National Bancorp's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Valley National Bancorp is more favorable than UMB Financial.
Valley National Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. UMB Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Valley National Bancorp pays out 51.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. UMB Financial pays out 20.7% 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.
Valley National Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than UMB Financial. Valley National Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UMB Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
UMB Financial received 247 more outperform votes than Valley National Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 46.47% of users gave UMB Financial an outperform vote while only 23.53% of users gave Valley National Bancorp an outperform vote.
Valley National Bancorp has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, UMB Financial has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Valley National Bancorp had 11 more articles in the media than UMB Financial. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Valley National Bancorp and 5 mentions for UMB Financial. UMB Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Valley National Bancorp's score of 0.69 indicating that UMB Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
UMB Financial has a net margin of 14.59% compared to Valley National Bancorp's net margin of 12.88%. UMB Financial's return on equity of 14.30% beat Valley National Bancorp's return on equity.
Summary
UMB Financial beats Valley National Bancorp on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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