ING vs. BBVA, BMO, CM, SMFG, SAN, LYG, BCS, NWG, KB, and IBN
Should you be buying ING Groep stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ING Groep include Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), Bank of Montreal (BMO), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM), Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), Banco Santander (SAN), Lloyds Banking Group (LYG), Barclays (BCS), NatWest Group (NWG), KB Financial Group (KB), and ICICI Bank (IBN). These companies are all part of the "commercial banks, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (NYSE:BBVA) and ING Groep (NYSE:ING) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria has higher revenue and earnings than ING Groep. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ING Groep, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ING Groep has a net margin of 32.20% compared to ING Groep's net margin of 26.90%. ING Groep's return on equity of 15.34% beat Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria's return on equity.
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ING Groep has a beta of 1.56, suggesting that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. ING Groep pays an annual dividend of $1.39 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.1%. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria pays out 46.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ING Groep pays out 61.5% 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. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and ING Groep has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria had 5 more articles in the media than ING Groep. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria and 26 mentions for ING Groep. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat ING Groep's score of 0.56 indicating that ING Groep is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
3.0% of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.5% of ING Groep shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria shares are owned 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.
ING Groep received 32 more outperform votes than Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.86% of users gave ING Groep an outperform vote while only 54.78% of users gave Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria an outperform vote.
Summary
ING Groep beats Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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