BCS vs. NWG, BSBR, CM, LYG, KB, BBVA, BAP, BCH, BSMX, and BSAC
Should you be buying Barclays stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barclays include NatWest Group (NWG), Banco Santander (Brasil) (BSBR), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM), Lloyds Banking Group (LYG), KB Financial Group (KB), Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), Credicorp (BAP), Banco de Chile (BCH), Banco Santander México, S.A., Institución de Banca Múltiple, Grupo Financiero Santander México (BSMX), and Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC). These companies are all part of the "commercial banks, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Barclays vs.
NatWest Group (NYSE:NWG) and Barclays (NYSE:BCS) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
NatWest Group has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barclays has a beta of 1.39, indicating that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Given NatWest Group's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe NatWest Group is more favorable than Barclays.
Barclays received 1248 more outperform votes than NatWest Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.07% of users gave Barclays an outperform vote while only 39.58% of users gave NatWest Group an outperform vote.
Barclays has higher revenue and earnings than NatWest Group. Barclays is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NatWest Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Barclays had 10 more articles in the media than NatWest Group. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Barclays and 3 mentions for NatWest Group. NatWest Group's average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Barclays' score of 0.05 indicating that NatWest Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
NatWest Group has a net margin of 21.15% compared to Barclays' net margin of 20.04%. NatWest Group's return on equity of 9.53% beat Barclays' return on equity.
NatWest Group pays an annual dividend of $0.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. Barclays pays an annual dividend of $0.47 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.1%. NatWest Group pays out 55.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Barclays pays out 32.4% 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. NatWest Group has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Barclays has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
0.9% of NatWest Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.3% of Barclays shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Barclays shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Barclays beats NatWest Group on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding BCS 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.
Barclays Competitors List
