BCS vs. RY, MUFG, HDB, IBN, TD, SMFG, SAN, ING, BMO, and BBVA
Should you be buying Barclays stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barclays include Royal Bank of Canada (RY), Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), HDFC Bank (HDB), ICICI Bank (IBN), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), Banco Santander (SAN), ING Groep (ING), Bank of Montreal (BMO), and Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA). These companies are all part of the "commercial banks, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Barclays (NYSE:BCS) and Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE:RY) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings, valuation and dividends.
Barclays pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Royal Bank of Canada pays an annual dividend of $4.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Barclays pays out 38.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Royal Bank of Canada pays out 50.6% 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. Barclays is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Royal Bank of Canada has higher revenue and earnings than Barclays. Barclays is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Royal Bank of Canada, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Barclays received 635 more outperform votes than Royal Bank of Canada when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.91% of users gave Barclays an outperform vote while only 55.55% of users gave Royal Bank of Canada an outperform vote.
3.4% of Barclays shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.3% of Royal Bank of Canada shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Barclays shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Barclays has a beta of 1.44, indicating that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Royal Bank of Canada has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Barclays has a net margin of 17.21% compared to Royal Bank of Canada's net margin of 12.12%. Royal Bank of Canada's return on equity of 14.87% beat Barclays' return on equity.
Royal Bank of Canada has a consensus price target of $133.25, suggesting a potential upside of 20.40%. Given Royal Bank of Canada's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Royal Bank of Canada is more favorable than Barclays.
In the previous week, Royal Bank of Canada had 4 more articles in the media than Barclays. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Royal Bank of Canada and 9 mentions for Barclays. Royal Bank of Canada's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Barclays' score of 0.20 indicating that Royal Bank of Canada is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Royal Bank of Canada beats Barclays on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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