TFC vs. PNC, FCNCA, FITB, MTB, HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, and WBS
Should you be buying Truist Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Truist Financial include The PNC Financial Services Group (PNC), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), M&T Bank (MTB), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), and Webster Financial (WBS). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
The PNC Financial Services Group (NYSE:PNC) and Truist Financial (NYSE:TFC) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, community ranking, profitability, valuation and risk.
The PNC Financial Services Group currently has a consensus price target of $157.02, indicating a potential upside of 3.88%. Truist Financial has a consensus price target of $43.17, indicating a potential upside of 15.25%. Given The PNC Financial Services Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Truist Financial is more favorable than The PNC Financial Services Group.
The PNC Financial Services Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Truist Financial. Truist Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The PNC Financial Services Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
83.5% of The PNC Financial Services Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.3% of Truist Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of The PNC Financial Services Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Truist Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
The PNC Financial Services Group pays an annual dividend of $6.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Truist Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. The PNC Financial Services Group pays out 52.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Truist Financial pays out -157.6% 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. The PNC Financial Services Group has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years and Truist Financial has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years. Truist Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
The PNC Financial Services Group has a net margin of 16.05% compared to The PNC Financial Services Group's net margin of -4.28%. Truist Financial's return on equity of 11.64% beat The PNC Financial Services Group's return on equity.
The PNC Financial Services Group has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Truist Financial has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Truist Financial received 14 more outperform votes than The PNC Financial Services Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.25% of users gave The PNC Financial Services Group an outperform vote while only 55.53% of users gave Truist Financial an outperform vote.
In the previous week, The PNC Financial Services Group had 6 more articles in the media than Truist Financial. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for The PNC Financial Services Group and 4 mentions for Truist Financial. Truist Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat The PNC Financial Services Group's score of 0.20 indicating that The PNC Financial Services Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
The PNC Financial Services Group beats Truist Financial on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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