UMBF vs. KEY, EWBC, FHN, WBS, WAL, PNFP, CFR, WTFC, CBSH, and ZION
Should you be buying UMB Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UMB Financial include KeyCorp (KEY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), Webster Financial (WBS), Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL), Pinnacle Financial Partners (PNFP), Cullen/Frost Bankers (CFR), Wintrust Financial (WTFC), Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), and Zions Bancorporation, National Association (ZION). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
UMB Financial vs.
KeyCorp (NYSE:KEY) and UMB Financial (NASDAQ:UMBF) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, valuation, risk and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, KeyCorp had 9 more articles in the media than UMB Financial. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for KeyCorp and 8 mentions for UMB Financial. UMB Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat KeyCorp's score of 0.70 indicating that UMB Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
KeyCorp pays an annual dividend of $0.82 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. UMB Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. KeyCorp pays out -273.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. UMB Financial pays out 17.8% 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. UMB Financial has increased its dividend for 32 consecutive years. KeyCorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
UMB Financial has a net margin of 15.76% compared to KeyCorp's net margin of -2.52%. UMB Financial's return on equity of 13.73% beat KeyCorp's return on equity.
KeyCorp currently has a consensus price target of $19.69, suggesting a potential upside of 15.68%. UMB Financial has a consensus price target of $130.14, suggesting a potential upside of 21.13%. Given UMB Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe UMB Financial is more favorable than KeyCorp.
79.7% of KeyCorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.8% of UMB Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of KeyCorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.9% of UMB Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
KeyCorp received 983 more outperform votes than UMB Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.94% of users gave KeyCorp an outperform vote while only 46.50% of users gave UMB Financial an outperform vote.
UMB Financial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than KeyCorp. KeyCorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UMB Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
KeyCorp has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, UMB Financial has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
UMB Financial beats KeyCorp on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:UMBF) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
