HSBC vs. MS, AXP, GS, SCHW, PGR, MUFG, C, BLK, HDB, and TD
Should you be buying HSBC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HSBC include Morgan Stanley (MS), American Express (AXP), The Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Charles Schwab (SCHW), Progressive (PGR), Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Citigroup (C), BlackRock (BLK), HDFC Bank (HDB), and Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) and HSBC (NYSE:HSBC) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
HSBC has a net margin of 19.02% compared to HSBC's net margin of 9.57%. Morgan Stanley's return on equity of 12.89% beat HSBC's return on equity.
In the previous week, Morgan Stanley had 23 more articles in the media than HSBC. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for Morgan Stanley and 11 mentions for HSBC. HSBC's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Morgan Stanley's score of 0.57 indicating that Morgan Stanley is being referred to more favorably in the media.
HSBC has higher revenue and earnings than Morgan Stanley. HSBC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Morgan Stanley, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Morgan Stanley pays an annual dividend of $3.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. HSBC pays an annual dividend of $6.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.7%. Morgan Stanley pays out 61.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HSBC pays out 108.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Morgan Stanley has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and HSBC has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Morgan Stanley received 351 more outperform votes than HSBC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.00% of users gave Morgan Stanley an outperform vote while only 59.84% of users gave HSBC an outperform vote.
Morgan Stanley presently has a consensus target price of $98.07, suggesting a potential upside of 5.64%. HSBC has a consensus target price of $560.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1,236.52%. Given Morgan Stanley's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe HSBC is more favorable than Morgan Stanley.
Morgan Stanley has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HSBC has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
84.2% of Morgan Stanley shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.5% of HSBC shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Morgan Stanley shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of HSBC shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Morgan Stanley beats HSBC on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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