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Hancock Whitney (HWC) Competitors

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$59.10 +0.64 (+1.09%)
As of 01/17/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

HWC vs. BBDO, SHG, AFRM, SOFI, BSBR, BAP, BCH, ALLY, GGAL, and UWMC

Should you be buying Hancock Whitney stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hancock Whitney include Banco Bradesco (BBDO), Shinhan Financial Group (SHG), Affirm (AFRM), SoFi Technologies (SOFI), Banco Santander (Brasil) (BSBR), Credicorp (BAP), Banco de Chile (BCH), Ally Financial (ALLY), Grupo Financiero Galicia (GGAL), and UWM (UWMC). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.

Hancock Whitney vs.

Banco Bradesco (NYSE:BBDO) and Hancock Whitney (NASDAQ:HWC) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking and risk.

Hancock Whitney has a net margin of 19.30% compared to Banco Bradesco's net margin of 7.43%. Hancock Whitney's return on equity of 11.47% beat Banco Bradesco's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Banco Bradesco7.43% 10.17% 0.86%
Hancock Whitney 19.30%11.47%1.28%

81.2% of Hancock Whitney shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Banco Bradesco shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Hancock Whitney shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Banco Bradesco pays an annual dividend of $0.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Hancock Whitney pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Banco Bradesco pays out 11.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hancock Whitney pays out 35.9% 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.

Banco Bradesco has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hancock Whitney has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Hancock Whitney had 9 more articles in the media than Banco Bradesco. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Hancock Whitney and 1 mentions for Banco Bradesco. Hancock Whitney's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Banco Bradesco's score of 0.15 indicating that Hancock Whitney is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Banco Bradesco Neutral
Hancock Whitney Neutral

Banco Bradesco received 72 more outperform votes than Hancock Whitney when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.79% of users gave Banco Bradesco an outperform vote while only 48.36% of users gave Hancock Whitney an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Banco BradescoOutperform Votes
131
61.79%
Underperform Votes
81
38.21%
Hancock WhitneyOutperform Votes
59
48.36%
Underperform Votes
63
51.64%

Banco Bradesco has higher revenue and earnings than Hancock Whitney. Banco Bradesco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hancock Whitney, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Banco Bradesco$39.41B0.49$2.85B$0.267.04
Hancock Whitney$1.37B3.72$392.60M$4.4613.25

Hancock Whitney has a consensus price target of $60.63, suggesting a potential upside of 2.58%. Given Hancock Whitney's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Hancock Whitney is more favorable than Banco Bradesco.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Banco Bradesco
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Hancock Whitney
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.89

Summary

Hancock Whitney beats Banco Bradesco on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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HWC vs. The Competition

MetricHancock WhitneyState commercial banks IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$5.03B$3.19B$11.74B$9.11B
Dividend Yield2.69%3.75%5.83%4.03%
P/E Ratio13.2516.5225.2217.33
Price / Sales3.722.5528.57137.15
Price / Cash9.229.8717.2735.97
Price / Book1.341.262.654.80
Net Income$392.60M$410.53M$1.04B$224.91M
7 Day Performance8.24%5.15%2.95%1.77%
1 Month Performance3.74%-4.08%-1.39%2.22%
1 Year Performance32.60%18.64%15.75%20.67%

Hancock Whitney Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HWC
Hancock Whitney
4.1538 of 5 stars
$59.10
+1.1%
$60.63
+2.6%
+32.6%$5.03B$1.37B13.253,591Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↓
BBDO
Banco Bradesco
2.5882 of 5 stars
$1.76
+0.6%
N/A-37.1%$18.73B$101.44B6.7788,400Short Interest ↓
SHG
Shinhan Financial Group
3.8003 of 5 stars
$34.41
+2.3%
N/A+26.8%$17.32B$20.26T5.40190Short Interest ↑
AFRM
Affirm
2.2885 of 5 stars
$53.53
-3.2%
$60.94
+13.8%
+41.4%$16.81B$2.52B-37.702,006Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
SOFI
SoFi Technologies
2.6433 of 5 stars
$13.98
-1.2%
$11.13
-20.4%
+119.1%$15.17B$2.48B139.814,400Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
BSBR
Banco Santander (Brasil)
3.546 of 5 stars
$4.00
+1.3%
$6.00
+50.0%
-30.9%$14.89B$45.72B5.3355,611Dividend Cut
BAP
Credicorp
3.8413 of 5 stars
$180.26
+0.1%
$194.25
+7.8%
+23.1%$14.34B$20.95B10.3437,000Positive News
BCH
Banco de Chile
2.0624 of 5 stars
$22.61
+0.7%
$21.00
-7.1%
+8.9%$11.42B$3.12T8.1012,300Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
ALLY
Ally Financial
4.9945 of 5 stars
$34.57
+1.1%
$42.67
+23.4%
+13.6%$10.53B$8.95B13.8311,100Upcoming Earnings
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
GGAL
Grupo Financiero Galicia
1.188 of 5 stars
$68.55
-4.9%
$59.00
-13.9%
+312.6%$10.11B$4.59T10.0712,012News Coverage
Positive News
UWMC
UWM
2.3956 of 5 stars
$5.40
-1.1%
$7.39
+36.9%
+0.4%$8.63B$835.67M-23.486,700

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This page (NASDAQ:HWC) was last updated on 1/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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