CFR vs. MTB, FITB, FCNCA, HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, WBS, and WAL
Should you be buying Cullen/Frost Bankers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cullen/Frost Bankers 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), Webster Financial (WBS), and Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Cullen/Frost Bankers vs.
M&T Bank (NYSE:MTB) and Cullen/Frost Bankers (NYSE:CFR) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, risk, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and profitability.
M&T Bank pays an annual dividend of $5.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Cullen/Frost Bankers pays an annual dividend of $3.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. M&T Bank pays out 36.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cullen/Frost Bankers pays out 42.8% 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. Cullen/Frost Bankers has increased its dividend for 31 consecutive years. M&T Bank is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Cullen/Frost Bankers has a net margin of 20.44% compared to M&T Bank's net margin of 19.24%. Cullen/Frost Bankers' return on equity of 15.95% beat M&T Bank's return on equity.
M&T Bank presently has a consensus target price of $221.68, indicating a potential upside of 18.12%. Cullen/Frost Bankers has a consensus target price of $132.54, indicating a potential downside of 2.16%. Given M&T Bank's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe M&T Bank is more favorable than Cullen/Frost Bankers.
M&T Bank has higher revenue and earnings than Cullen/Frost Bankers. M&T Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cullen/Frost Bankers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, M&T Bank had 10 more articles in the media than Cullen/Frost Bankers. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for M&T Bank and 5 mentions for Cullen/Frost Bankers. Cullen/Frost Bankers' average media sentiment score of 1.42 beat M&T Bank's score of 1.39 indicating that Cullen/Frost Bankers is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
84.7% of M&T Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.9% of Cullen/Frost Bankers shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of M&T Bank shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Cullen/Frost Bankers shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Cullen/Frost Bankers received 97 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 39.07% of users gave Cullen/Frost Bankers an outperform vote.
M&T Bank has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cullen/Frost Bankers has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
M&T Bank beats Cullen/Frost Bankers on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:CFR) was last updated on 3/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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