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.
Prosperity Bancshares (NYSE:PB) and Huntington Bancshares (NASDAQ:HBAN) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation and risk.
Prosperity Bancshares has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Huntington Bancshares has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Prosperity Bancshares has a net margin of 24.50% compared to Huntington Bancshares' net margin of 15.86%. Huntington Bancshares' return on equity of 11.99% beat Prosperity Bancshares' return on equity.
Prosperity Bancshares presently has a consensus price target of $68.86, suggesting a potential upside of 11.32%. Huntington Bancshares has a consensus price target of $15.30, suggesting a potential upside of 12.01%. Given Huntington Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Huntington Bancshares is more favorable than Prosperity Bancshares.
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 Prosperity Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.7% of Huntington Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.3% of Prosperity Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Huntington Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Huntington Bancshares had 10 more articles in the media than Prosperity Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Huntington Bancshares and 2 mentions for Prosperity Bancshares. Prosperity Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.86 beat Huntington Bancshares' score of 1.16 indicating that Prosperity Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Prosperity Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $2.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Huntington Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Prosperity Bancshares pays out 51.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Huntington Bancshares pays out 55.9% 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 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.
Summary
Huntington Bancshares beats Prosperity Bancshares on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding PB and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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