BCS vs. NWG, LYG, CM, BSBR, KB, BAP, BCH, ING, BSAC, and BBVA
Should you be buying Barclays stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barclays include NatWest Group (NWG), Lloyds Banking Group (LYG), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM), Banco Santander (Brasil) (BSBR), KB Financial Group (KB), Credicorp (BAP), Banco de Chile (BCH), ING Groep (ING), Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC), and Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA). These companies are all part of the "commercial banks, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Barclays (NYSE:BCS) and NatWest Group (NYSE:NWG) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and profitability.
Barclays pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. NatWest Group pays an annual dividend of $0.57 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.9%. Barclays pays out 38.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Barclays has higher revenue and earnings than NatWest Group.
In the previous week, Barclays had 2 more articles in the media than NatWest Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Barclays and 5 mentions for NatWest Group. NatWest Group's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Barclays' score of 0.15 indicating that NatWest Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Barclays has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NatWest Group has a beta of 1.42, indicating that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500.
3.4% of Barclays shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.3% of NatWest Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Barclays shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Barclays received 1286 more outperform votes than NatWest Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.24% of users gave Barclays an outperform vote while only 39.22% of users gave NatWest Group an outperform vote.
Barclays has a net margin of 16.82% compared to NatWest Group's net margin of 0.00%. Barclays' return on equity of 6.09% beat NatWest Group's return on equity.
Summary
Barclays beats NatWest Group on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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