BOCH vs. NBS, TBCG, CBG, BGEO, VMUK, PLUS, JTC, RAT, BNKR, and PAG
Should you be buying Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public include Nationwide Building Society (NBS), TBC Bank Group (TBCG), Close Brothers Group (CBG), Bank of Georgia Group (BGEO), Virgin Money UK (VMUK), Plus500 (PLUS), JTC (JTC), Rathbones Group (RAT), Bankers (BNKR), and Paragon Banking Group (PAG). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Nationwide Building Society (LON:NBS) and Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public (LON:BOCH) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Nationwide Building Society had 1 more articles in the media than Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Nationwide Building Society and 2 mentions for Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public. Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public's average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat Nationwide Building Society's score of -0.15 indicating that Nationwide Building Society is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Nationwide Building Society has a beta of 0.29, meaning that its stock price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public has a net margin of 47.67% compared to Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public's net margin of 33.58%. Nationwide Building Society's return on equity of 21.31% beat Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public's return on equity.
Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public received 26 more outperform votes than Nationwide Building Society when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.07% of users gave Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public an outperform vote while only 72.41% of users gave Nationwide Building Society an outperform vote.
138.0% of Nationwide Building Society shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.9% of Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public shares are held by institutional investors. 22.5% of Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Nationwide Building Society has higher revenue and earnings than Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public. Nationwide Building Society is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public beats Nationwide Building Society on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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