UBS vs. C, USB, PNC, TFC, HDB, CB, MMC, PLD, TD, and IBN
Should you be buying UBS Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UBS Group include Citigroup (C), U.S. Bancorp (USB), The PNC Financial Services Group (PNC), Truist Financial (TFC), HDFC Bank (HDB), Chubb (CB), Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC), Prologis (PLD), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), and ICICI Bank (IBN). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
UBS Group (NYSE:UBS) and Citigroup (NYSE:C) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment and community ranking.
Citigroup has a consensus price target of $63.66, indicating a potential upside of 0.85%. Given Citigroup's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Citigroup is more favorable than UBS Group.
UBS Group received 479 more outperform votes than Citigroup when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.22% of users gave UBS Group an outperform vote while only 47.23% of users gave Citigroup an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Citigroup had 29 more articles in the media than UBS Group. MarketBeat recorded 45 mentions for Citigroup and 16 mentions for UBS Group. UBS Group's average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat Citigroup's score of 0.10 indicating that UBS Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
UBS Group pays an annual dividend of $0.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Citigroup pays an annual dividend of $2.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. UBS Group pays out 2.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Citigroup pays out 62.7% 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.
71.7% of Citigroup shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of UBS Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Citigroup shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
UBS Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Citigroup. UBS Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Citigroup, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
UBS Group has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Citigroup has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
UBS Group has a net margin of 39.78% compared to Citigroup's net margin of 4.90%. UBS Group's return on equity of 7.78% beat Citigroup's return on equity.
Summary
Citigroup beats UBS Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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