HSBA vs. BNC, LSEG, LLOY, BARC, STAN, CABP, NWG, PRU, LGEN, and AV
Should you be buying HSBC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HSBC include Banco Santander (BNC), London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY), Barclays (BARC), Standard Chartered (STAN), CAB Payments (CABP), NatWest Group (NWG), Prudential (PRU), Legal & General Group (LGEN), and Aviva (AV). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Banco Santander (LON:BNC) and HSBC (LON:HSBA) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and risk.
HSBC has a consensus price target of GBX 822.94, suggesting a potential upside of 24.01%. Given Banco Santander's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe HSBC is more favorable than Banco Santander.
HSBC received 874 more outperform votes than Banco Santander when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.74% of users gave Banco Santander an outperform vote while only 50.10% of users gave HSBC an outperform vote.
Banco Santander has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HSBC has a beta of 0.58, indicating that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Banco Santander pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. HSBC pays an annual dividend of GBX 48 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. Banco Santander pays out 2,678.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. HSBC pays out 5,274.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
HSBC has a net margin of 41.76% compared to HSBC's net margin of 24.75%. Banco Santander's return on equity of 13.00% beat HSBC's return on equity.
In the previous week, HSBC had 17 more articles in the media than Banco Santander. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for HSBC and 2 mentions for Banco Santander. HSBC's average media sentiment score of 0.35 beat Banco Santander's score of 0.23 indicating that Banco Santander is being referred to more favorably in the media.
30.6% of Banco Santander shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.4% of HSBC shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Banco Santander shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of HSBC shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
HSBC has higher revenue and earnings than Banco Santander. HSBC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Banco Santander, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
HSBC beats Banco Santander on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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