LYG vs. BCS, CM, NWG, KB, BSBR, ING, BAP, BBVA, BMO, and BCH
Should you be buying Lloyds Banking Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lloyds Banking Group include Barclays (BCS), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM), NatWest Group (NWG), KB Financial Group (KB), Banco Santander (Brasil) (BSBR), ING Groep (ING), Credicorp (BAP), Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), Bank of Montreal (BMO), and Banco de Chile (BCH). These companies are all part of the "commercial banks, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Barclays (NYSE:BCS) and Lloyds Banking Group (NYSE:LYG) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment and dividends.
Lloyds Banking Group has a net margin of 17.97% compared to Lloyds Banking Group's net margin of 16.82%. Barclays' return on equity of 11.29% beat Lloyds Banking Group's return on equity.
Barclays has a beta of 1.48, meaning that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lloyds Banking Group has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
Barclays received 411 more outperform votes than Lloyds Banking Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.26% of users gave Barclays an outperform vote while only 67.40% of users gave Lloyds Banking Group an outperform vote.
Barclays pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Lloyds Banking Group pays an annual dividend of $0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. Barclays pays out 38.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lloyds Banking Group pays out 45.0% 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. Barclays has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Lloyds Banking Group has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Lloyds Banking Group has a consensus price target of $79.75, suggesting a potential upside of 2,949.71%. Given Barclays' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Lloyds Banking Group is more favorable than Barclays.
In the previous week, Barclays and Barclays both had 15 articles in the media. Barclays' average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Lloyds Banking Group's score of -0.03 indicating that Lloyds Banking Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
3.4% of Barclays shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.2% of Lloyds Banking Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Barclays shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Lloyds Banking Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Barclays beats Lloyds Banking Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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