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Banco Santander (BNC) Competitors

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GBX 720 +10.00 (+1.41%)
As of 08/22/2025 11:50 AM Eastern

BNC vs. HSBA, BARC, LLOY, NWG, RKT, COB, BUR, BCG, TRST, and BOY

Should you be buying Banco Santander stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Banco Santander include HSBC (HSBA), Barclays (BARC), Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY), NatWest Group (NWG), Reckitt Benckiser Group (RKT), Cobham (COB), Burford Capital (BUR), Baltic Classifieds Group (BCG), Trustpilot Group (TRST), and Bodycote (BOY). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.

Banco Santander vs. Its Competitors

HSBC (LON:HSBA) and Banco Santander (LON:BNC) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends and profitability.

HSBC currently has a consensus target price of GBX 969.17, indicating a potential upside of 0.19%. Given HSBC's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe HSBC is more favorable than Banco Santander.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
HSBC
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33
Banco Santander
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

HSBC has higher revenue and earnings than Banco Santander. HSBC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Banco Santander, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
HSBC£83.82B2.58£29.03B£103.989.30
Banco Santander£70.85B1.87£14.20B£63.8111.28

HSBC has a net margin of 34.63% compared to Banco Santander's net margin of 20.05%. Banco Santander's return on equity of 12.99% beat HSBC's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
HSBC34.63% 12.54% 0.80%
Banco Santander 20.05%12.99%0.73%

HSBC has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Banco Santander has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.

HSBC pays an annual dividend of GBX 48 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Banco Santander pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. HSBC pays out 46.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Banco Santander pays out 26.6% 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.

45.8% of HSBC shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.0% of Banco Santander shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of HSBC shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Banco Santander shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

In the previous week, HSBC had 6 more articles in the media than Banco Santander. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for HSBC and 1 mentions for Banco Santander. HSBC's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Banco Santander's score of 0.00 indicating that HSBC is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
HSBC
2 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Banco Santander
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Summary

HSBC beats Banco Santander on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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BNC vs. The Competition

MetricBanco SantanderBanks IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£132.16B£125.28B£6.49B£3.22B
Dividend Yield0.03%3.91%4.18%5.04%
P/E Ratio11.2815.7814.42164.70
Price / Sales1.8772.451,790.06310,111.14
Price / Cash0.091.19127.2027.93
Price / Book1.091.325.135.91
Net Income£14.20B£10.16B£1.23B£5.89B
7 Day Performance1.84%1.99%0.92%49.51%
1 Month Performance12.32%5.20%2.17%56.38%
1 Year Performance98.35%43.11%24.12%136.20%

Banco Santander Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BNC
Banco Santander
N/AGBX 720
+1.4%
N/A+101.7%£132.16B£70.85B11.28206,500News Coverage
HSBA
HSBC
1.0069 of 5 stars
GBX 944.70
+0.5%
GBX 955
+1.1%
N/A£210.91B£83.82B9.09219,000
BARC
Barclays
2.8245 of 5 stars
GBX 372.10
+0.2%
GBX 400.20
+7.6%
+67.0%£53.43B£24.93B10.9487,400Trending News
Insider Trade
LLOY
Lloyds Banking Group
1.4799 of 5 stars
GBX 82.88
-0.1%
GBX 77.20
-6.9%
+44.3%£50.25B£28.75B10.4859,400Trending News
Insider Trade
NWG
NatWest Group
3.4388 of 5 stars
GBX 551.61
+0.8%
GBX 560.83
+1.7%
+63.1%£44.15B£24.36B9.9061,000
RKT
Reckitt Benckiser Group
0.9968 of 5 stars
GBX 5,473.35
+0.4%
GBX 5,618.33
+2.6%
+30.5%£37.34B£13.78B25.0526,000
COB
Cobham
N/AN/AN/AN/A£3.96B£1.97B-86.5810,898
BUR
Burford Capital
2.7525 of 5 stars
GBX 1,011
+0.5%
GBX 1,600
+58.3%
+4.1%£2.78B£299.55M18.09140News Coverage
Gap Up
BCG
Baltic Classifieds Group
0.2065 of 5 stars
GBX 340.47
+1.2%
GBX 350
+2.8%
+29.6%£1.95B£92.71M51.03130
TRST
Trustpilot Group
1.6652 of 5 stars
GBX 219.80
-0.8%
GBX 310
+41.0%
+5.8%£1.15B£222.55M72.86820News Coverage
BOY
Bodycote
2.1176 of 5 stars
GBX 636
+1.6%
GBX 758.33
+19.2%
-0.9%£1.14B£739.54M19.144,833Gap Up

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This page (LON:BNC) was last updated on 8/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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