BLK vs. SCHW, GS, MS, IBKR, MMC, MUFG, PLD, TD, HDB, and AXP
Should you be buying BlackRock stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackRock include Charles Schwab (SCHW), The Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Morgan Stanley (MS), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC), Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Prologis (PLD), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), HDFC Bank (HDB), and American Express (AXP). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
BlackRock vs.
Charles Schwab (NYSE:SCHW) and BlackRock (NYSE:BLK) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
81.6% of Charles Schwab shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.0% of BlackRock shares are held by institutional investors. 6.6% of Charles Schwab shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of BlackRock shares are held 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.
Charles Schwab has a net margin of 33.15% compared to Charles Schwab's net margin of 29.90%. BlackRock's return on equity of 27.54% beat Charles Schwab's return on equity.
Charles Schwab has higher revenue and earnings than BlackRock. Charles Schwab is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BlackRock, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BlackRock received 256 more outperform votes than Charles Schwab when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.12% of users gave BlackRock an outperform vote while only 63.90% of users gave Charles Schwab an outperform vote.
Charles Schwab presently has a consensus price target of $72.28, suggesting a potential upside of 31.13%. BlackRock has a consensus price target of $767.69, suggesting a potential upside of 16.34%. Given BlackRock's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Charles Schwab is more favorable than BlackRock.
Charles Schwab pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. BlackRock pays an annual dividend of $20.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Charles Schwab pays out 29.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BlackRock pays out 58.4% 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. Charles Schwab has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and BlackRock has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years. BlackRock is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Charles Schwab has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackRock has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Charles Schwab had 15 more articles in the media than BlackRock. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Charles Schwab and 25 mentions for BlackRock. Charles Schwab's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat BlackRock's score of 0.25 indicating that BlackRock is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
BlackRock beats Charles Schwab on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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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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