Fifth Third Bancorp
At today's price, Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB) is priced for 15.8% return on equity. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
The valuation methods scatter wildly here, from about $13 to $55, and the reason is a corrupted input: trailing return on equity reads just 6.4% because the Comerica merger that closed in February loaded the quarter with $567 million of one-time charges. Strip those charges and the picture changes. The dividend-discount method lands at $55 and the future-market-cap method at $45, both near the price, while the bank-model floor at $13 is mechanically depressed by the temporary earnings hit. The
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1,195 institutional managers reported holding FITB in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 92% of the company; the top 10 hold 54%. 196 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, T. Rowe Price, among others. On the short side, 45.3M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 5% of shares outstanding (5.9 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
FITB's share count grew 16.4% over the past five years even with $2.33B spent on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting), raised 15 years straight; the current rate is $1.54 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $3.15B in dividends and $1.16B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at FITB over the trailing three years: 2023: 1 buy totaling $1.50M; 2025: 2 buys totaling $124k. 34 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
FITB's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-08 | +1.1% | -10.9% |
| 2023-11-08 | +11.9% | +38.7% |
| 2024-02-28 | +0.1% | +10.5% |
| 2024-05-08 | +5.9% | -4.2% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
FITB's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-10 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-06-09 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-06-03 (items 3.01, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-05-22 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-05-08 (items 8.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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