NWG vs. BNC, LLOY, BARC, RKT, COB, BUR, BCG, BOY, TRST, and DFS
Should you be buying NatWest Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NatWest Group include Banco Santander (BNC), Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY), Barclays (BARC), Reckitt Benckiser Group (RKT), Cobham (COB), Burford Capital (BUR), Baltic Classifieds Group (BCG), Bodycote (BOY), Trustpilot Group (TRST), and DFS Furniture (DFS). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Banco Santander (LON:BNC) and NatWest Group (LON:NWG) 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, risk, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, valuation, earnings and institutional ownership.
Banco Santander has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NatWest Group has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
NatWest Group has a net margin of 32.31% compared to Banco Santander's net margin of 25.18%. Banco Santander's return on equity of 12.61% beat NatWest Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Banco Santander had 2 more articles in the media than NatWest Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Banco Santander and 1 mentions for NatWest Group. NatWest Group's average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat Banco Santander's score of 0.20 indicating that NatWest Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
NatWest Group received 4 more outperform votes than Banco Santander when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.92% of users gave NatWest Group an outperform vote while only 64.74% of users gave Banco Santander an outperform vote.
31.5% of Banco Santander shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.1% of NatWest Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Banco Santander shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.1% of NatWest Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Banco Santander pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. NatWest Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 18 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Banco Santander pays out 2,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. NatWest Group pays out 3,913.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
NatWest Group has a consensus target price of GBX 343.57, indicating a potential upside of 2.90%. Given NatWest Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe NatWest Group is more favorable than Banco Santander.
Banco Santander has higher revenue and earnings than NatWest Group. Banco Santander is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NatWest Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
NatWest Group beats Banco Santander on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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