EWBC vs. MTB, FITB, FCNCA, HBAN, RF, KEY, FHN, SSB, WBS, and WAL
Should you be buying East West Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of East West Bancorp include M&T Bank (MTB), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), First Horizon (FHN), SouthState (SSB), Webster Financial (WBS), and Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
East West Bancorp vs.
M&T Bank (NYSE:MTB) and East West Bancorp (NASDAQ:EWBC) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
M&T Bank has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, East West Bancorp has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
East West Bancorp received 311 more outperform votes than M&T Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.71% of users gave East West Bancorp an outperform vote while only 45.87% of users gave M&T Bank an outperform vote.
M&T Bank presently has a consensus price target of $219.97, indicating a potential upside of 20.22%. East West Bancorp has a consensus price target of $111.31, indicating a potential upside of 19.65%. Given M&T Bank's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe M&T Bank is more favorable than East West Bancorp.
M&T Bank pays an annual dividend of $5.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. East West Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. M&T Bank pays out 36.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. East West Bancorp pays out 28.8% 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.
M&T Bank has higher revenue and earnings than East West Bancorp. East West Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than M&T Bank, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
East West Bancorp has a net margin of 25.73% compared to M&T Bank's net margin of 19.24%. East West Bancorp's return on equity of 15.71% beat M&T Bank's return on equity.
84.7% of M&T Bank shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.5% of East West Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of M&T Bank shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of East West Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, M&T Bank had 9 more articles in the media than East West Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for M&T Bank and 14 mentions for East West Bancorp. East West Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat M&T Bank's score of 1.03 indicating that East West Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
East West Bancorp beats M&T Bank on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:EWBC) was last updated on 3/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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