STAN vs. BARC, BNC, PRU, LGEN, AV, SMT, AIBG, NWG, ADM, and PSH
Should you be buying Standard Chartered stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Standard Chartered include Barclays (BARC), Banco Santander (BNC), Prudential (PRU), Legal & General Group (LGEN), Aviva (AV), Scottish Mortgage (SMT), AIB Group (AIBG), NatWest Group (NWG), Admiral Group (ADM), and Pershing Square (PSH). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Barclays (LON:BARC) and Standard Chartered (LON:STAN) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, media sentiment, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Barclays has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Standard Chartered has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Barclays has higher revenue and earnings than Standard Chartered. Barclays is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Standard Chartered, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Barclays pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Standard Chartered pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Barclays pays out 2,963.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Standard Chartered pays out 2,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Barclays has a net margin of 22.38% compared to Barclays' net margin of 20.85%. Standard Chartered's return on equity of 7.54% beat Barclays' return on equity.
52.5% of Barclays shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.3% of Standard Chartered shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Barclays shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Standard Chartered shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Barclays received 1551 more outperform votes than Standard Chartered when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.68% of users gave Barclays an outperform vote while only 58.89% of users gave Standard Chartered an outperform vote.
Barclays currently has a consensus price target of GBX 242, suggesting a potential upside of 20.40%. Standard Chartered has a consensus price target of GBX 981.60, suggesting a potential upside of 31.41%. Given Barclays' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Standard Chartered is more favorable than Barclays.
In the previous week, Barclays had 14 more articles in the media than Standard Chartered. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Barclays and 18 mentions for Standard Chartered. Standard Chartered's average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat Barclays' score of 0.27 indicating that Barclays is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Barclays beats Standard Chartered on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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