USB vs. WFC, PNC, COF, TFC, MFG, HBAN, RF, SHG, C, and BBVA
Should you be buying U.S. Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of U.S. Bancorp include Wells Fargo & Company (WFC), The PNC Financial Services Group (PNC), Capital One Financial (COF), Truist Financial (TFC), Mizuho Financial Group (MFG), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), Shinhan Financial Group (SHG), Citigroup (C), and Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) and U.S. Bancorp (NYSE:USB) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Wells Fargo & Company presently has a consensus price target of $58.99, indicating a potential downside of 1.34%. U.S. Bancorp has a consensus price target of $46.02, indicating a potential upside of 12.00%. Given Wells Fargo & Company's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe U.S. Bancorp is more favorable than Wells Fargo & Company.
In the previous week, Wells Fargo & Company had 23 more articles in the media than U.S. Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Wells Fargo & Company and 17 mentions for U.S. Bancorp. Wells Fargo & Company's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat U.S. Bancorp's score of 0.63 indicating that U.S. Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Wells Fargo & Company received 714 more outperform votes than U.S. Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.32% of users gave Wells Fargo & Company an outperform vote while only 58.10% of users gave U.S. Bancorp an outperform vote.
Wells Fargo & Company has a net margin of 15.63% compared to Wells Fargo & Company's net margin of 12.13%. Wells Fargo & Company's return on equity of 13.93% beat U.S. Bancorp's return on equity.
75.9% of Wells Fargo & Company shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.6% of U.S. Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Wells Fargo & Company shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of U.S. Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Wells Fargo & Company has higher revenue and earnings than U.S. Bancorp. Wells Fargo & Company is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than U.S. Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Wells Fargo & Company has a beta of 1.18, indicating that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, U.S. Bancorp has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Wells Fargo & Company pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. U.S. Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Wells Fargo & Company pays out 29.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. U.S. Bancorp pays out 64.9% 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. Wells Fargo & Company has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and U.S. Bancorp has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years. U.S. Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Wells Fargo & Company beats U.S. Bancorp on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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