MFG vs. TFC, PNC, USB, HBAN, SHG, KEY, C, MET, AIG, and TRV
Should you be buying Mizuho Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mizuho Financial Group include Truist Financial (TFC), The PNC Financial Services Group (PNC), U.S. Bancorp (USB), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Shinhan Financial Group (SHG), KeyCorp (KEY), Citigroup (C), MetLife (MET), American International Group (AIG), and Travelers Companies (TRV). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Mizuho Financial Group (NYSE:MFG) and Truist Financial (NYSE:TFC) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.
3.3% of Mizuho Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.3% of Truist Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Mizuho Financial Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Truist Financial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Mizuho Financial Group has a net margin of 8.48% compared to Truist Financial's net margin of -4.28%. Truist Financial's return on equity of 9.15% beat Mizuho Financial Group's return on equity.
Mizuho Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Truist Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Mizuho Financial Group pays out 27.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Truist Financial pays out -157.6% 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. Truist Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Truist Financial has a consensus target price of $41.97, suggesting a potential upside of 9.94%. Given Truist Financial's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Truist Financial is more favorable than Mizuho Financial Group.
Mizuho Financial Group has higher revenue and earnings than Truist Financial. Truist Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mizuho Financial Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Truist Financial had 15 more articles in the media than Mizuho Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Truist Financial and 5 mentions for Mizuho Financial Group. Truist Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Mizuho Financial Group's score of 0.26 indicating that Truist Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Truist Financial received 496 more outperform votes than Mizuho Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.63% of users gave Mizuho Financial Group an outperform vote while only 55.81% of users gave Truist Financial an outperform vote.
Mizuho Financial Group has a beta of 0.42, meaning that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Truist Financial has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Truist Financial beats Mizuho Financial Group on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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