CMA vs. CFR, PNFP, WBS, ZION, BOKF, FHN, SNV, FNB, ONB, and UMBF
Should you be buying Comerica stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Comerica include Cullen/Frost Bankers (CFR), Pinnacle Financial Partners (PNFP), Webster Financial (WBS), Zions Bancorporation, National Association (ZION), BOK Financial (BOKF), First Horizon (FHN), Synovus Financial (SNV), F.N.B. (FNB), Old National Bancorp (ONB), and UMB Financial (UMBF). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
Cullen/Frost Bankers (NYSE:CFR) and Comerica (NYSE:CMA) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk and earnings.
Cullen/Frost Bankers currently has a consensus target price of $117.92, suggesting a potential upside of 10.13%. Comerica has a consensus target price of $56.98, suggesting a potential upside of 9.42%. Given Comerica's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Cullen/Frost Bankers is more favorable than Comerica.
Comerica received 557 more outperform votes than Cullen/Frost Bankers when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.51% of users gave Comerica an outperform vote while only 39.98% of users gave Cullen/Frost Bankers an outperform vote.
86.9% of Cullen/Frost Bankers shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.7% of Comerica shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.9% of Cullen/Frost Bankers shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Comerica shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Comerica has higher revenue and earnings than Cullen/Frost Bankers. Comerica 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.
Cullen/Frost Bankers has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Comerica has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Comerica had 10 more articles in the media than Cullen/Frost Bankers. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Comerica and 22 mentions for Cullen/Frost Bankers. Cullen/Frost Bankers' average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Comerica's score of 0.43 indicating that Comerica is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cullen/Frost Bankers pays an annual dividend of $3.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Comerica pays an annual dividend of $2.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Cullen/Frost Bankers pays out 43.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Comerica pays out 56.5% 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 30 consecutive years and Comerica has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Cullen/Frost Bankers has a net margin of 26.26% compared to Cullen/Frost Bankers' net margin of 13.11%. Comerica's return on equity of 18.69% beat Cullen/Frost Bankers' return on equity.
Summary
Cullen/Frost Bankers beats Comerica on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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