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Nationwide Building Society (NBS) Competitors

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GBX 130 -0.50 (-0.38%)
As of 07/10/2025 11:59 AM Eastern

NBS vs. VMUK, TBCG, BOCH, PTSB, MTRO, CBG, STB, ARBB, CBKD, and MFX

Should you be buying Nationwide Building Society stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nationwide Building Society include Virgin Money UK (VMUK), TBC Bank Group (TBCG), Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public (BOCH), Permanent TSB Group (PTSB), Metro Bank (MTRO), Close Brothers Group (CBG), Secure Trust Bank (STB), Arbuthnot Banking Group (ARBB), Commercial International Bank (Egypt) S.A.E. (CBKD), and Manx Financial Group (MFX). These companies are all part of the "banks - regional" industry.

Nationwide Building Society vs. Its Competitors

Virgin Money UK (LON:VMUK) and Nationwide Building Society (LON:NBS) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, earnings, risk, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

56.5% of Virgin Money UK shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 138.0% of Nationwide Building Society shares are held by institutional investors. 17.2% of Virgin Money UK shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

In the previous week, Nationwide Building Society had 3 more articles in the media than Virgin Money UK. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Nationwide Building Society and 0 mentions for Virgin Money UK. Nationwide Building Society's average media sentiment score of 0.48 beat Virgin Money UK's score of 0.00 indicating that Nationwide Building Society is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Virgin Money UK Neutral
Nationwide Building Society Neutral

Virgin Money UK has a net margin of 15.84% compared to Nationwide Building Society's net margin of 14.17%. Nationwide Building Society's return on equity of 7.71% beat Virgin Money UK's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Virgin Money UK15.84% 5.35% 0.33%
Nationwide Building Society 14.17%7.71%0.48%

Nationwide Building Society has higher revenue and earnings than Virgin Money UK. Virgin Money UK is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nationwide Building Society, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Virgin Money UK£1.58B0.00£250M£0.23N/A
Nationwide Building Society£1.07T0.00£151.90B£141.120.92

Virgin Money UK has a beta of 1.89, indicating that its share price is 89% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nationwide Building Society has a beta of 0.3, indicating that its share price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Nationwide Building Society beats Virgin Money UK on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding NBS and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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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NBS vs. The Competition

MetricNationwide Building SocietyBanks IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£1.39B£17.99B£6.09B£3.00B
Dividend YieldN/A4.30%4.20%5.02%
P/E Ratio0.928.9913.11150.91
Price / Sales0.0047.641,743.69314,545.51
Price / Cash0.0414.25127.7827.97
Price / Book0.000.661.914.59
Net Income£151.90B£16.75B£1.23B£5.90B
7 Day Performance0.08%0.90%4.71%4.79%
1 Month Performance0.23%4.41%6.83%8.35%
1 Year Performance-0.19%23.96%16.00%79.51%

Nationwide Building Society Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NBS
Nationwide Building Society
N/AGBX 130
-0.4%
N/A-0.8%£1.39B£1.07T0.9218,099News Coverage
VMUK
Virgin Money UK
N/AN/AN/AN/A£2.83B£1.58B946.098,110
TBCG
TBC Bank Group
N/AGBX 4,805.38
+1.3%
N/A+67.3%£2.73B£2.74B2.1910,267
BOCH
Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public
N/AN/AGBX 595
+∞
N/A£1.66B£1.07B2,678.572,847High Trading Volume
PTSB
Permanent TSB Group
N/AGBX 2.06
+2.0%
N/A+52.1%£1.21B£104.62B11.413,330Gap Up
High Trading Volume
MTRO
Metro Bank
1.1055 of 5 stars
GBX 129.40
-0.5%
GBX 150
+15.9%
+266.5%£884.77M£752.96M-36.174,286Analyst Forecast
CBG
Close Brothers Group
3.4942 of 5 stars
GBX 411.20
+8.6%
GBX 550
+33.8%
-16.6%£619.52M£1.30B6.204,000Analyst Forecast
STB
Secure Trust Bank
4.8316 of 5 stars
GBX 872
+0.9%
GBX 1,420
+62.8%
+18.4%£166.07M£361.02M6.45879Positive News
Analyst Forecast
ARBB
Arbuthnot Banking Group
N/AGBX 970
+2.6%
N/A-0.8%£157.01M£239.83M5.13799
CBKD
Commercial International Bank (Egypt) S.A.E.
N/AGBX 1.69
-0.2%
N/A+7.9%£49.80M£91.36B6.527,917News Coverage
MFX
Manx Financial Group
N/AGBX 21.25
-3.4%
N/A+15.8%£25.44M£61.86M4.29177Gap Up

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