CBSH vs. MTB, FCNCA, FITB, HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, WBS, and WAL
Should you be buying Commerce Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Commerce Bancshares include M&T Bank (MTB), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), Webster Financial (WBS), and Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Commerce Bancshares vs.
M&T Bank (NYSE:MTB) and Commerce Bancshares (NASDAQ:CBSH) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk, media sentiment and community ranking.
M&T Bank has higher revenue and earnings than Commerce Bancshares. M&T Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Commerce Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Commerce Bancshares received 47 more outperform votes than M&T Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 45.76% of users gave M&T Bank an outperform vote while only 44.63% of users gave Commerce Bancshares an outperform vote.
M&T Bank currently has a consensus price target of $221.68, indicating a potential upside of 14.57%. Commerce Bancshares has a consensus price target of $67.83, indicating a potential upside of 5.99%. Given M&T Bank's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe M&T Bank is more favorable than Commerce Bancshares.
M&T Bank has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Commerce Bancshares has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
84.7% of M&T Bank shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.3% of Commerce Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of M&T Bank shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of Commerce Bancshares shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Commerce Bancshares has a net margin of 25.24% compared to M&T Bank's net margin of 19.24%. Commerce Bancshares' return on equity of 16.31% beat M&T Bank's return on equity.
M&T Bank pays an annual dividend of $5.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Commerce Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. M&T Bank pays out 36.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Commerce Bancshares pays out 27.4% 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. Commerce Bancshares has raised its dividend for 58 consecutive years.
In the previous week, M&T Bank had 4 more articles in the media than Commerce Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for M&T Bank and 13 mentions for Commerce Bancshares. M&T Bank's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Commerce Bancshares' score of 0.97 indicating that M&T Bank is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
M&T Bank beats Commerce Bancshares on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CBSH) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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