HSBA vs. BNC, BARC, STAN, CABP, LSEG, LLOY, 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), Barclays (BARC), Standard Chartered (STAN), CAB Payments (CABP), London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY), NatWest Group (NWG), Prudential (PRU), Legal & General Group (LGEN), and Aviva (AV). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
HSBC (LON:HSBA) and Banco Santander (LON:BNC) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership and community ranking.
HSBC pays an annual dividend of GBX 49 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.4%. Banco Santander pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. HSBC pays out 5,384.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Banco Santander pays out 2,631.6% 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 currently has a consensus target price of GBX 792, suggesting a potential upside of 19.06%. Given HSBC's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe HSBC is more favorable than Banco Santander.
44.8% of HSBC shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.2% of Banco Santander shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of HSBC shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Banco Santander shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, HSBC had 3 more articles in the media than Banco Santander. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for HSBC and 7 mentions for Banco Santander. HSBC's average media sentiment score of 0.31 beat Banco Santander's score of -0.05 indicating that HSBC is being referred to more favorably in the media.
HSBC has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Banco Santander has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
HSBC has higher revenue and earnings than Banco Santander. Banco Santander is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HSBC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
HSBC received 877 more outperform votes than Banco Santander when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.74% of users gave Banco Santander an outperform vote while only 50.15% of users gave HSBC an outperform vote.
HSBC has a net margin of 41.26% compared to Banco Santander's net margin of 24.68%. HSBC's return on equity of 12.31% beat Banco Santander's return on equity.
Summary
HSBC beats Banco Santander on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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