DB vs. ITUB, BNS, BK, FITB, MTB, FCNCA, STT, BBD, CFG, and NTRS
Should you be buying Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft include Itaú Unibanco (ITUB), Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS), Bank of New York Mellon (BK), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), M&T Bank (MTB), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), State Street (STT), Banco Bradesco (BBD), Citizens Financial Group (CFG), and Northern Trust (NTRS). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Itaú Unibanco (NYSE:ITUB) and Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft (NYSE:DB) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends and media sentiment.
Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft received 277 more outperform votes than Itaú Unibanco when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.70% of users gave Itaú Unibanco an outperform vote while only 51.34% of users gave Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft an outperform vote.
Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Itaú Unibanco. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Itaú Unibanco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
27.9% of Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Itaú Unibanco shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Itaú Unibanco has a net margin of 11.09% compared to Itaú Unibanco's net margin of 6.68%. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft's return on equity of 18.73% beat Itaú Unibanco's return on equity.
Itaú Unibanco pays an annual dividend of $0.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft pays an annual dividend of $0.2110 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Itaú Unibanco pays out 4.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft pays out 9.2% 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.
Itaú Unibanco has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Itaú Unibanco currently has a consensus price target of $7.05, indicating a potential upside of 16.24%. Given Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Itaú Unibanco is more favorable than Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft.
In the previous week, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft had 27 more articles in the media than Itaú Unibanco. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft and 1 mentions for Itaú Unibanco. Itaú Unibanco's average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft's score of 0.25 indicating that Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Itaú Unibanco beats Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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