BCS vs. LYG, NWG, CM, KB, BSBR, BAP, ING, BCH, BBVA, and BMO
Should you be buying Barclays stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barclays include Lloyds Banking Group (LYG), NatWest Group (NWG), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM), KB Financial Group (KB), Banco Santander (Brasil) (BSBR), Credicorp (BAP), ING Groep (ING), Banco de Chile (BCH), Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), and Bank of Montreal (BMO). These companies are all part of the "commercial banks, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Lloyds Banking Group (NYSE:LYG) and Barclays (NYSE:BCS) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Lloyds Banking Group pays an annual dividend of $0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. Barclays pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Lloyds Banking Group pays out 47.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Barclays pays out 38.8% 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. Lloyds Banking Group has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Barclays has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Barclays had 12 more articles in the media than Lloyds Banking Group. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Barclays and 9 mentions for Lloyds Banking Group. Barclays' average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Lloyds Banking Group's score of 0.42 indicating that Lloyds Banking Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lloyds Banking Group presently has a consensus target price of $79.75, indicating a potential upside of 3,003.11%. Given Barclays' higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Lloyds Banking Group is more favorable than Barclays.
Barclays received 412 more outperform votes than Lloyds Banking Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.21% of users gave Barclays an outperform vote while only 67.40% of users gave Lloyds Banking Group an outperform vote.
2.2% of Lloyds Banking Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.4% of Barclays shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Lloyds Banking Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Barclays shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Lloyds Banking Group has higher revenue and earnings than Barclays. Lloyds Banking Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Barclays, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lloyds Banking Group has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barclays has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Barclays has a net margin of 17.21% compared to Barclays' net margin of 13.41%. Barclays' return on equity of 10.35% beat Lloyds Banking Group's return on equity.
Summary
Barclays beats Lloyds Banking Group on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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