CBSH vs. MTB, FITB, FCNCA, HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, SSB, and WBS
Should you be buying Commerce Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Commerce Bancshares include M&T Bank (MTB), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), SouthState (SSB), and Webster Financial (WBS). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Commerce Bancshares vs.
Commerce Bancshares (NASDAQ:CBSH) and M&T Bank (NYSE:MTB) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
Commerce Bancshares currently has a consensus price target of $68.17, indicating a potential upside of 8.46%. M&T Bank has a consensus price target of $219.97, indicating a potential upside of 20.22%. Given M&T Bank's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe M&T Bank is more favorable than Commerce Bancshares.
In the previous week, M&T Bank had 5 more articles in the media than Commerce Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for M&T Bank and 16 mentions for Commerce Bancshares. M&T Bank's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Commerce Bancshares' score of 1.00 indicating that M&T Bank is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Commerce Bancshares received 45 more outperform votes than M&T Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 45.87% of users gave M&T Bank an outperform vote while only 44.56% of users gave Commerce Bancshares an outperform vote.
Commerce Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. M&T Bank pays an annual dividend of $5.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Commerce Bancshares pays out 27.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. M&T Bank pays out 36.9% 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. Commerce Bancshares has raised its dividend for 58 consecutive years.
70.3% of Commerce Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.7% of M&T Bank shares are held by institutional investors. 3.2% of Commerce Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of M&T Bank shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Commerce Bancshares has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, M&T Bank has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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 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.
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 3/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
