JPM vs. BRK.B, BRK.A, AXP, HSBC, MS, GS, RY, C, UBS, and USB
Should you be buying JPMorgan Chase & Co. stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of JPMorgan Chase & Co. include Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), American Express (AXP), HSBC (HSBC), Morgan Stanley (MS), The Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Royal Bank of Canada (RY), Citigroup (C), UBS Group (UBS), and U.S. Bancorp (USB). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.B) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, community ranking and valuation.
Berkshire Hathaway has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JPMorgan Chase & Co. has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. has a net margin of 20.05% compared to JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s net margin of 19.90%. Berkshire Hathaway's return on equity of 17.79% beat JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s return on equity.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. received 1601 more outperform votes than Berkshire Hathaway when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.36% of users gave JPMorgan Chase & Co. an outperform vote while only 67.84% of users gave Berkshire Hathaway an outperform vote.
Berkshire Hathaway currently has a consensus price target of $414.00, indicating a potential upside of 2.35%. JPMorgan Chase & Co. has a consensus price target of $194.10, indicating a potential downside of 2.97%. Given JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Berkshire Hathaway is more favorable than JPMorgan Chase & Co..
Berkshire Hathaway has higher revenue and earnings than JPMorgan Chase & Co.. Berkshire Hathaway is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JPMorgan Chase & Co., indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, JPMorgan Chase & Co. had 58 more articles in the media than Berkshire Hathaway. MarketBeat recorded 60 mentions for JPMorgan Chase & Co. and 2 mentions for Berkshire Hathaway. JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Berkshire Hathaway's score of 0.35 indicating that Berkshire Hathaway is being referred to more favorably in the media.
39.3% of Berkshire Hathaway shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.6% of JPMorgan Chase & Co. shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.1% of Berkshire Hathaway shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of JPMorgan Chase & Co. shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
JPMorgan Chase & Co. beats Berkshire Hathaway on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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