PB vs. FITB, HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, WBS, WAL, PNFP, and CFR
Should you be buying Prosperity Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Prosperity Bancshares include Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), Webster Financial (WBS), Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL), Pinnacle Financial Partners (PNFP), and Cullen/Frost Bankers (CFR). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Prosperity Bancshares vs.
Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ:FITB) and Prosperity Bancshares (NYSE:PB) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, risk, dividends and earnings.
83.8% of Fifth Third Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.7% of Prosperity Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Fifth Third Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Prosperity Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Fifth Third Bancorp has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Prosperity Bancshares has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Fifth Third Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $45.92, suggesting a potential upside of 4.48%. Prosperity Bancshares has a consensus target price of $81.38, suggesting a potential upside of 3.01%. Given Fifth Third Bancorp's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Fifth Third Bancorp is more favorable than Prosperity Bancshares.
Fifth Third Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Prosperity Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $2.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Fifth Third Bancorp pays out 49.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Prosperity Bancshares pays out 49.3% 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. Fifth Third Bancorp has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years and Prosperity Bancshares has raised its dividend for 27 consecutive years. Fifth Third Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Fifth Third Bancorp received 428 more outperform votes than Prosperity Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.61% of users gave Fifth Third Bancorp an outperform vote while only 47.07% of users gave Prosperity Bancshares an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Fifth Third Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than Prosperity Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Fifth Third Bancorp and 8 mentions for Prosperity Bancshares. Prosperity Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Fifth Third Bancorp's score of 0.23 indicating that Prosperity Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Fifth Third Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Prosperity Bancshares. Fifth Third Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Prosperity Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Prosperity Bancshares has a net margin of 25.39% compared to Fifth Third Bancorp's net margin of 16.58%. Fifth Third Bancorp's return on equity of 14.58% beat Prosperity Bancshares' return on equity.
Summary
Fifth Third Bancorp beats Prosperity Bancshares on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:PB) was last updated on 1/17/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
