AXP vs. COIN, HSBC, MS, GS, SCHW, WFC, PGR, MUFG, C, and BLK
Should you be buying American Express stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Express include Coinbase Global (COIN), HSBC (HSBC), Morgan Stanley (MS), The Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Charles Schwab (SCHW), Wells Fargo & Company (WFC), Progressive (PGR), Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Citigroup (C), and BlackRock (BLK). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Coinbase Global (NASDAQ:COIN) and American Express (NYSE:AXP) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, valuation and institutional ownership.
American Express has higher revenue and earnings than Coinbase Global. American Express is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Coinbase Global, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Coinbase Global presently has a consensus price target of $165.43, suggesting a potential downside of 24.71%. American Express has a consensus price target of $209.52, suggesting a potential downside of 11.56%. Given Coinbase Global's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe American Express is more favorable than Coinbase Global.
In the previous week, American Express had 45 more articles in the media than Coinbase Global. MarketBeat recorded 85 mentions for American Express and 40 mentions for Coinbase Global. Coinbase Global's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat American Express' score of 0.63 indicating that American Express is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Coinbase Global has a beta of 3.41, suggesting that its share price is 241% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Express has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
American Express received 1047 more outperform votes than Coinbase Global when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.39% of users gave American Express an outperform vote while only 41.99% of users gave Coinbase Global an outperform vote.
68.8% of Coinbase Global shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.3% of American Express shares are held by institutional investors. 33.2% of Coinbase Global shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of American Express shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
American Express has a net margin of 14.50% compared to American Express' net margin of 3.05%. Coinbase Global's return on equity of 32.46% beat American Express' return on equity.
Summary
American Express beats Coinbase Global on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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