SAN vs. RY, MUFG, HDB, TD, IBN, SMFG, BMO, BBVA, ING, and CM
Should you be buying Banco Santander stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Banco Santander include Royal Bank of Canada (RY), Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), HDFC Bank (HDB), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), ICICI Bank (IBN), Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), Bank of Montreal (BMO), Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), ING Groep (ING), and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM). These companies are all part of the "commercial banks, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE:RY) and Banco Santander (NYSE:SAN) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk and earnings.
Banco Santander has a net margin of 14.98% compared to Banco Santander's net margin of 12.12%. Banco Santander's return on equity of 14.87% beat Royal Bank of Canada's return on equity.
Royal Bank of Canada has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Banco Santander has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Royal Bank of Canada pays an annual dividend of $4.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Banco Santander pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Royal Bank of Canada pays out 50.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Banco Santander pays out 19.4% 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. Royal Bank of Canada has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years and Banco Santander has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Royal Bank of Canada is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
45.3% of Royal Bank of Canada shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.2% of Banco Santander shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.5% of Banco Santander shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Royal Bank of Canada had 19 more articles in the media than Banco Santander. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Royal Bank of Canada and 7 mentions for Banco Santander. Banco Santander's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Royal Bank of Canada's score of 0.44 indicating that Royal Bank of Canada is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Banco Santander has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Royal Bank of Canada. Banco Santander is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Royal Bank of Canada, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Royal Bank of Canada currently has a consensus target price of $133.25, indicating a potential upside of 25.25%. Given Banco Santander's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Royal Bank of Canada is more favorable than Banco Santander.
Royal Bank of Canada received 140 more outperform votes than Banco Santander when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.78% of users gave Royal Bank of Canada an outperform vote while only 49.74% of users gave Banco Santander an outperform vote.
Summary
Royal Bank of Canada beats Banco Santander on 16 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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