NTRS vs. STT, BK, CFG, FITB, FCNCA, MTB, DB, ALLY, EWBC, and CBSH
Should you be buying Northern Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Northern Trust include State Street (STT), Bank of New York Mellon (BK), Citizens Financial Group (CFG), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), M&T Bank (MTB), Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft (DB), Ally Financial (ALLY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), and Commerce Bancshares (CBSH). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Northern Trust vs.
Northern Trust (NASDAQ:NTRS) and State Street (NYSE:STT) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, valuation, profitability, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
State Street has a net margin of 18.73% compared to Northern Trust's net margin of 14.73%. Northern Trust's return on equity of 14.30% beat State Street's return on equity.
State Street received 269 more outperform votes than Northern Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.59% of users gave State Street an outperform vote while only 42.86% of users gave Northern Trust an outperform vote.
In the previous week, State Street had 6 more articles in the media than Northern Trust. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for State Street and 2 mentions for Northern Trust. Northern Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.61 beat State Street's score of 0.65 indicating that Northern Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
81.4% of Northern Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.4% of State Street shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Northern Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of State Street shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Northern Trust pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. State Street pays an annual dividend of $2.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Northern Trust pays out 51.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. State Street pays out 35.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
State Street has higher revenue and earnings than Northern Trust. State Street is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northern Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Northern Trust presently has a consensus target price of $97.29, indicating a potential upside of 35.28%. State Street has a consensus target price of $82.21, indicating a potential upside of 20.86%. Given Northern Trust's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Northern Trust is more favorable than State Street.
Northern Trust has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, State Street has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
State Street beats Northern Trust on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding NTRS and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ 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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