BPOP vs. FITB, HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, WBS, WAL, PNFP, and CFR
Should you be buying Popular stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Popular include Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), 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), and Cullen/Frost Bankers (CFR). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Popular vs.
Popular (NASDAQ:BPOP) and Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ:FITB) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, profitability and dividends.
Popular has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fifth Third Bancorp has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Fifth Third Bancorp received 291 more outperform votes than Popular when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.44% of users gave Popular an outperform vote while only 56.70% of users gave Fifth Third Bancorp an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Fifth Third Bancorp had 4 more articles in the media than Popular. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Fifth Third Bancorp and 14 mentions for Popular. Popular's average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Fifth Third Bancorp's score of 0.82 indicating that Popular is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Popular pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Fifth Third Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Popular pays out 32.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fifth Third Bancorp pays out 47.1% 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. Fifth Third Bancorp has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years. Fifth Third Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Popular currently has a consensus price target of $112.25, indicating a potential upside of 11.48%. Fifth Third Bancorp has a consensus price target of $46.75, indicating a potential upside of 9.03%. Given Popular's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Popular is more favorable than Fifth Third Bancorp.
87.3% of Popular shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.8% of Fifth Third Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Popular shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Fifth Third Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Fifth Third Bancorp has a net margin of 17.43% compared to Popular's net margin of 14.15%. Fifth Third Bancorp's return on equity of 14.10% beat Popular's return on equity.
Fifth Third Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Popular. Popular is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fifth Third Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Fifth Third Bancorp beats Popular on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:BPOP) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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