HSBA vs. BNC, LSEG, LLOY, BARC, STAN, CABP, NWG, PRU, LGEN, and AV
Should you be buying HSBC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HSBC include Banco Santander (BNC), London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY), Barclays (BARC), Standard Chartered (STAN), CAB Payments (CABP), NatWest Group (NWG), Prudential (PRU), Legal & General Group (LGEN), and Aviva (AV). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Banco Santander (LON:BNC) and HSBC (LON:HSBA) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.
HSBC received 872 more outperform votes than Banco Santander when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.74% of users gave Banco Santander an outperform vote while only 50.08% of users gave HSBC an outperform vote.
30.9% of Banco Santander shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.4% of HSBC shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Banco Santander shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of HSBC shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
HSBC has a net margin of 41.76% compared to HSBC's net margin of 24.75%. Banco Santander's return on equity of 13.00% beat HSBC's return on equity.
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.
HSBC has a consensus target price of GBX 788.73, suggesting a potential upside of 27.42%. Given Banco Santander's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe HSBC is more favorable than Banco Santander.
Banco Santander has a beta of 1.34, meaning that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HSBC has a beta of 0.59, meaning that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, HSBC had 9 more articles in the media than Banco Santander. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for HSBC and 2 mentions for Banco Santander. Banco Santander's average media sentiment score of 0.18 beat HSBC's score of 0.10 indicating that HSBC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Banco Santander pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. HSBC pays an annual dividend of GBX 48 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%. Banco Santander pays out 2,678.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. HSBC pays out 5,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
HSBC beats Banco Santander on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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