LSEG vs. BNC, LLOY, BARC, NWG, PRU, STAN, LGEN, AV, HSBA, and AQX
Should you be buying London Stock Exchange Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of London Stock Exchange Group include Banco Santander (BNC), Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY), Barclays (BARC), NatWest Group (NWG), Prudential (PRU), Standard Chartered (STAN), Legal & General Group (LGEN), Aviva (AV), HSBC (HSBA), and Aquis Exchange (AQX). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
London Stock Exchange Group (LON:LSEG) 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 risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends and profitability.
London Stock Exchange Group currently has a consensus price target of £101.64, indicating a potential upside of 15.58%. Given London Stock Exchange Group's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe London Stock Exchange Group is more favorable than Banco Santander.
62.1% of London Stock Exchange Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.6% of Banco Santander shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.3% of London Stock Exchange Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Banco Santander shares are owned 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.
Banco Santander received 38 more outperform votes than London Stock Exchange Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 87.50% of users gave London Stock Exchange Group an outperform vote while only 64.74% of users gave Banco Santander an outperform vote.
London Stock Exchange Group has a beta of 0.33, indicating that its stock price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Banco Santander has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
London Stock Exchange Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 115 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Banco Santander pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. London Stock Exchange Group pays out 8,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. 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. Banco Santander is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Banco Santander has higher revenue and earnings than London Stock Exchange Group. Banco Santander is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than London Stock Exchange Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Banco Santander has a net margin of 24.75% compared to London Stock Exchange Group's net margin of 9.08%. Banco Santander's return on equity of 12.07% beat London Stock Exchange Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Banco Santander had 1 more articles in the media than London Stock Exchange Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Banco Santander and 2 mentions for London Stock Exchange Group. Banco Santander's average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat London Stock Exchange Group's score of -0.03 indicating that Banco Santander is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Banco Santander beats London Stock Exchange Group on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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