BOKF vs. PNFP, SNV, ZION, CMA, HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, and WBS
Should you be buying BOK Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BOK Financial include Pinnacle Financial Partners (PNFP), Synovus Financial (SNV), Zions Bancorporation, National Association (ZION), Comerica (CMA), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), and Webster Financial (WBS). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Pinnacle Financial Partners (NASDAQ:PNFP) and BOK Financial (NASDAQ:BOKF) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
Pinnacle Financial Partners has a net margin of 18.59% compared to Pinnacle Financial Partners' net margin of 13.93%. Pinnacle Financial Partners' return on equity of 10.52% beat BOK Financial's return on equity.
Pinnacle Financial Partners currently has a consensus target price of $94.63, suggesting a potential upside of 19.01%. BOK Financial has a consensus target price of $97.10, suggesting a potential upside of 7.15%. Given BOK Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Pinnacle Financial Partners is more favorable than BOK Financial.
Pinnacle Financial Partners received 47 more outperform votes than BOK Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.66% of users gave Pinnacle Financial Partners an outperform vote while only 47.74% of users gave BOK Financial an outperform vote.
87.4% of Pinnacle Financial Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.4% of BOK Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of Pinnacle Financial Partners shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 56.9% of BOK Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Pinnacle Financial Partners has higher earnings, but lower revenue than BOK Financial. Pinnacle Financial Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BOK Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pinnacle Financial Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. BOK Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Pinnacle Financial Partners pays out 12.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BOK Financial pays out 32.1% 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 19 consecutive years. BOK Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, BOK Financial had 4 more articles in the media than Pinnacle Financial Partners. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for BOK Financial and 3 mentions for Pinnacle Financial Partners. BOK Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat Pinnacle Financial Partners' score of 0.83 indicating that Pinnacle Financial Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Pinnacle Financial Partners has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BOK Financial has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Pinnacle Financial Partners beats BOK Financial on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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