BAC vs. AAPL, AXP, BRK.B, C, CVX, GS, JPM, KO, MS, and WFC
Should you be buying Bank of America stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bank of America include Apple (AAPL), American Express (AXP), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B), Citigroup (C), Chevron (CVX), The Goldman Sachs Group (GS), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), CocaCola (KO), Morgan Stanley (MS), and Wells Fargo & Company (WFC).
Bank of America vs. Its Competitors
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) are related large-cap companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, valuation and profitability.
Apple presently has a consensus price target of $234.95, indicating a potential upside of 10.12%. Bank of America has a consensus price target of $48.28, indicating a potential downside of 1.34%. Given Apple's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Apple is more favorable than Bank of America.
In the previous week, Apple had 183 more articles in the media than Bank of America. MarketBeat recorded 274 mentions for Apple and 91 mentions for Bank of America. Bank of America's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Apple's score of 0.85 indicating that Bank of America is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
67.7% of Apple shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.7% of Bank of America shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Apple shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Bank of America shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Apple has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bank of America has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Apple has higher revenue and earnings than Bank of America. Bank of America is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Apple, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Apple pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Bank of America pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Apple pays out 16.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bank of America pays out 31.0% 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. Apple has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years and Bank of America has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years.
Apple has a net margin of 24.30% compared to Bank of America's net margin of 14.56%. Apple's return on equity of 167.24% beat Bank of America's return on equity.
Summary
Apple beats Bank of America on 12 of the 19 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 BAC 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 NYSE 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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This page (NYSE:BAC) was last updated on 7/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
