WBS vs. MTB, FITB, FCNCA, HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, SSB, and WAL
Should you be buying Webster Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Webster Financial 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), SouthState (SSB), and Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Webster Financial vs.
M&T Bank (NYSE:MTB) and Webster Financial (NYSE:WBS) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and media sentiment.
84.7% of M&T Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.6% of Webster Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of M&T Bank shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Webster Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
M&T Bank has a net margin of 19.24% compared to Webster Financial's net margin of 18.39%. Webster Financial's return on equity of 10.82% beat M&T Bank's return on equity.
M&T Bank has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Webster Financial has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Webster Financial received 285 more outperform votes than M&T Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.66% of users gave Webster Financial an outperform vote while only 45.87% of users gave M&T Bank an outperform vote.
M&T Bank pays an annual dividend of $5.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Webster Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. M&T Bank pays out 36.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Webster Financial pays out 36.6% 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. Webster Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
M&T Bank presently has a consensus price target of $219.97, indicating a potential upside of 19.99%. Webster Financial has a consensus price target of $63.08, indicating a potential upside of 19.15%. Given M&T Bank's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe M&T Bank is more favorable than Webster Financial.
M&T Bank has higher revenue and earnings than Webster Financial. Webster Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than M&T Bank, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, M&T Bank had 13 more articles in the media than Webster Financial. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for M&T Bank and 12 mentions for Webster Financial. Webster Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.59 beat M&T Bank's score of 1.03 indicating that Webster Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Webster Financial beats M&T Bank on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:WBS) was last updated on 3/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
