CFG vs. ITUB, BNS, BK, DB, FITB, FCNCA, MTB, STT, NTRS, and ALLY
Should you be buying Citizens Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Citizens Financial Group include Itaú Unibanco (ITUB), Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS), Bank of New York Mellon (BK), Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft (DB), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), M&T Bank (MTB), State Street (STT), Northern Trust (NTRS), and Ally Financial (ALLY). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Itaú Unibanco (NYSE:ITUB) and Citizens Financial Group (NYSE:CFG) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Citizens Financial Group has a net margin of 11.52% compared to Citizens Financial Group's net margin of 11.09%. Citizens Financial Group's return on equity of 18.73% beat Itaú Unibanco's return on equity.
Citizens Financial Group received 90 more outperform votes than Itaú Unibanco when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.65% of users gave Itaú Unibanco an outperform vote while only 62.58% of users gave Citizens Financial Group an outperform vote.
94.9% of Citizens Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Itaú Unibanco shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Citizens Financial Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Itaú Unibanco currently has a consensus price target of $7.05, indicating a potential upside of 21.34%. Citizens Financial Group has a consensus price target of $37.73, indicating a potential upside of 9.66%. Given Citizens Financial Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Itaú Unibanco is more favorable than Citizens Financial Group.
In the previous week, Citizens Financial Group had 11 more articles in the media than Itaú Unibanco. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Citizens Financial Group and 1 mentions for Itaú Unibanco. Itaú Unibanco's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Citizens Financial Group's score of 0.80 indicating that Citizens Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Itaú Unibanco has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Citizens Financial Group has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Itaú Unibanco has higher revenue and earnings than Citizens Financial Group. Itaú Unibanco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Citizens Financial Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Itaú Unibanco pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Citizens Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Itaú Unibanco pays out 5.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Citizens Financial Group pays out 60.9% 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. Citizens Financial Group has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Citizens Financial Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Citizens Financial Group beats Itaú Unibanco on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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