KB vs. SMFG, SAN, BMO, BBVA, ING, CM, LYG, BCS, NWG, and BSBR
Should you be buying KB Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of KB Financial Group include Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), Banco Santander (SAN), Bank of Montreal (BMO), Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), ING Groep (ING), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM), Lloyds Banking Group (LYG), Barclays (BCS), NatWest Group (NWG), and Banco Santander (Brasil) (BSBR). These companies are all part of the "commercial banks, not elsewhere classified" industry.
KB Financial Group (NYSE:KB) and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (NYSE:SMFG) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking and earnings.
11.5% of KB Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.9% of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. 69.0% of KB Financial Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, KB Financial Group had 2 more articles in the media than Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for KB Financial Group and 3 mentions for Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat KB Financial Group's score of 0.60 indicating that Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
KB Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $0.29 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. KB Financial Group pays out 23.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group pays out 29.0% 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. KB Financial Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group has higher revenue and earnings than KB Financial Group. KB Financial Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
KB Financial Group has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
KB Financial Group has a net margin of 11.65% compared to Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group's net margin of 10.32%. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group's return on equity of 7.71% beat KB Financial Group's return on equity.
KB Financial Group received 10 more outperform votes than Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.13% of users gave Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group an outperform vote while only 61.14% of users gave KB Financial Group an outperform vote.
Summary
KB Financial Group beats Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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