BIRG vs. STB, ARBB, CBKD, MTRO, IVPU, HEIT, NVT, MVCT, NTV, and PU13
Should you be buying Bank of Ireland Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bank of Ireland Group include Secure Trust Bank (STB), Arbuthnot Banking Group (ARBB), Commercial International Bank (Egypt) S.A.E. (CBKD), Metro Bank (MTRO), Invesco Select UK Equity (IVPU), Harmony Energy Income Trust (HEIT), Northern Venture Trust (NVT), Molten Ventures VCT (MVCT), Northern 2 VCT (NTV), and Puma VCT 13 (PU13). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Bank of Ireland Group (LON:BIRG) and Secure Trust Bank (LON:STB) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.
Bank of Ireland Group has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Secure Trust Bank has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Secure Trust Bank received 221 more outperform votes than Bank of Ireland Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 77.22% of users gave Bank of Ireland Group an outperform vote while only 76.63% of users gave Secure Trust Bank an outperform vote.
Bank of Ireland Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 60 per share and has a dividend yield of 593.7%. Secure Trust Bank pays an annual dividend of GBX 32 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Bank of Ireland Group pays out 4,316.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Secure Trust Bank pays out 2,335.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Bank of Ireland Group has higher revenue and earnings than Secure Trust Bank. Bank of Ireland Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Secure Trust Bank, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
57.8% of Bank of Ireland Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.5% of Secure Trust Bank shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Bank of Ireland Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.5% of Secure Trust Bank shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Bank of Ireland Group has a net margin of 39.01% compared to Secure Trust Bank's net margin of 17.14%. Bank of Ireland Group's return on equity of 13.30% beat Secure Trust Bank's return on equity.
In the previous week, Bank of Ireland Group had 1 more articles in the media than Secure Trust Bank. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Bank of Ireland Group and 2 mentions for Secure Trust Bank. Secure Trust Bank's average media sentiment score of 1.73 beat Bank of Ireland Group's score of 0.67 indicating that Secure Trust Bank is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Bank of Ireland Group beats Secure Trust Bank on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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