BARC vs. STAN, BNC, LLOY, NWG, PRU, LSEG, LGEN, AV, SMT, and AIBG
Should you be buying Barclays stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barclays include Standard Chartered (STAN), Banco Santander (BNC), Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY), NatWest Group (NWG), Prudential (PRU), London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), Legal & General Group (LGEN), Aviva (AV), Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (SMT), and AIB Group (AIBG). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Standard Chartered (LON:STAN) and Barclays (LON:BARC) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and community ranking.
73.0% of Standard Chartered shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.7% of Barclays shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Standard Chartered shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Barclays shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Standard Chartered currently has a consensus price target of GBX 951.33, indicating a potential upside of 22.88%. Barclays has a consensus price target of GBX 265, indicating a potential upside of 20.95%. Given Barclays' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Standard Chartered is more favorable than Barclays.
Standard Chartered pays an annual dividend of GBX 22 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Barclays pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Standard Chartered pays out 2,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Barclays pays out 3,076.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Barclays has higher revenue and earnings than Standard Chartered. Barclays is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Standard Chartered, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Barclays received 1553 more outperform votes than Standard Chartered when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.70% of users gave Barclays an outperform vote while only 58.85% of users gave Standard Chartered an outperform vote.
Standard Chartered has a beta of 0.83, suggesting that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barclays has a beta of 1.35, suggesting that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Barclays had 6 more articles in the media than Standard Chartered. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Barclays and 9 mentions for Standard Chartered. Barclays' average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat Standard Chartered's score of 0.08 indicating that Standard Chartered is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Barclays has a net margin of 21.70% compared to Barclays' net margin of 20.70%. Standard Chartered's return on equity of 7.13% beat Barclays' return on equity.
Summary
Barclays beats Standard Chartered on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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