BOKF vs. HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, WBS, WAL, PNFP, CFR, and WTFC
Should you be buying BOK Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BOK Financial include Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), Webster Financial (WBS), Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL), Pinnacle Financial Partners (PNFP), Cullen/Frost Bankers (CFR), and Wintrust Financial (WTFC). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
BOK Financial vs.
Huntington Bancshares (NASDAQ:HBAN) and BOK Financial (NASDAQ:BOKF) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability and earnings.
Huntington Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than BOK Financial. Huntington Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BOK Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Huntington Bancshares has a net margin of 16.23% compared to BOK Financial's net margin of 15.32%. Huntington Bancshares' return on equity of 11.23% beat BOK Financial's return on equity.
Huntington Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. BOK Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Huntington Bancshares pays out 50.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BOK Financial pays out 28.0% 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. BOK Financial has increased its dividend for 20 consecutive years.
80.7% of Huntington Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.4% of BOK Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Huntington Bancshares shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 56.9% of BOK Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Huntington Bancshares presently has a consensus target price of $18.06, indicating a potential upside of 11.82%. BOK Financial has a consensus target price of $116.40, indicating a potential upside of 7.59%. Given Huntington Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Huntington Bancshares is more favorable than BOK Financial.
In the previous week, Huntington Bancshares had 10 more articles in the media than BOK Financial. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Huntington Bancshares and 1 mentions for BOK Financial. Huntington Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.35 beat BOK Financial's score of 0.99 indicating that Huntington Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Huntington Bancshares has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BOK Financial has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Huntington Bancshares received 182 more outperform votes than BOK Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.38% of users gave Huntington Bancshares an outperform vote while only 46.82% of users gave BOK Financial an outperform vote.
Summary
Huntington Bancshares beats BOK Financial on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:BOKF) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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