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NYSE:DFS

Discover Financial Services (DFS) Competitors

$102.36
+2.48 (+2.48%)
(As of 05/26/2023 07:00 PM ET)
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Today's Range
$99.80
$102.45
50-Day Range
$92.44
$105.76
52-Week Range
$87.64
$119.91
Volume
1.79 million shs
Average Volume
2.31 million shs
Market Capitalization
$25.99 billion
P/E Ratio
6.89
Dividend Yield
2.74%
Price Target
$119.00

DFS vs. SBAC, ARES, AVB, WTW, TROW, NDAQ, CBRE, EQR, STT, and DLR

Should you be buying Discover Financial Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Discover Financial Services include SBA Communications (SBAC), Ares Management (ARES), AvalonBay Communities (AVB), Willis Towers Watson Public (WTW), T. Rowe Price Group (TROW), Nasdaq (NDAQ), CBRE Group (CBRE), Equity Residential (EQR), State Street (STT), and Digital Realty Trust (DLR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

Discover Financial Services vs.

SBA Communications (NASDAQ:SBAC) and Discover Financial Services (NYSE:DFS) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and risk.

SBA Communications pays an annual dividend of $3.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Discover Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. SBA Communications pays out 99.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Discover Financial Services pays out 18.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SBA Communications has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years and Discover Financial Services has increased its dividend for 12 consecutive years. Discover Financial Services is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

In the previous week, SBA Communications had 1 more articles in the media than Discover Financial Services. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for SBA Communications and 4 mentions for Discover Financial Services. SBA Communications' average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Discover Financial Services' score of 0.74 indicating that SBA Communications is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
SBA Communications
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Discover Financial Services
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

SBA Communications presently has a consensus price target of $322.93, suggesting a potential upside of 44.30%. Discover Financial Services has a consensus price target of $119.00, suggesting a potential upside of 16.26%. Given SBA Communications' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe SBA Communications is more favorable than Discover Financial Services.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
SBA Communications
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
13 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.94
Discover Financial Services
0 Sell rating(s)
9 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.31

Discover Financial Services has higher revenue and earnings than SBA Communications. Discover Financial Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SBA Communications, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
SBA Communications$2.63 billion9.21$461.43 million$3.4265.44
Discover Financial Services$15.20 billion1.71$4.39 billion$14.856.89

93.5% of SBA Communications shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.7% of Discover Financial Services shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of SBA Communications shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Discover Financial Services shares are held by company 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.

Discover Financial Services has a net margin of 24.65% compared to SBA Communications' net margin of 13.91%. Discover Financial Services' return on equity of 31.30% beat SBA Communications' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
SBA Communications 13.91% -7.01% 3.64%
Discover Financial Services 24.65% 31.30% 3.29%

SBA Communications has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Discover Financial Services has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Discover Financial Services received 473 more outperform votes than SBA Communications when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.80% of users gave Discover Financial Services an outperform vote while only 67.36% of users gave SBA Communications an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
SBA CommunicationsOutperform Votes
780
67.36%
Underperform Votes
378
32.64%
Discover Financial ServicesOutperform Votes
1253
75.80%
Underperform Votes
400
24.20%

Summary

SBA Communications and Discover Financial Services tied by winning 11 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.


New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding DFS and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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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DFS vs. The Competition

MetricDiscover Financial ServicesPersonal credit institutions IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$25.99B$3.92B$5.93B$14.38B
Dividend Yield2.74%5.66%9.71%4.08%
P/E Ratio6.8925.99148.9817.84
Price / Sales1.712.123,784.988.86
Price / Cash6.106.9531.9415.14
Price / Book2.071.871.806.91
Net Income$4.39B$480.83M$642.23M$895.50M
7 Day Performance1.29%0.45%0.06%-1.51%
1 Month Performance-1.07%8.99%-1.20%-1.97%
1 Year Performance-8.77%-17.64%7.92%-10.22%

Discover Financial Services Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SBAC
SBA Communications
2.8869 of 5 stars
$234.91
+0.1%
$324.53
+38.2%
-35.6%$25.38B$2.69B68.691,834Short Interest ↓
ARES
Ares Management
3.1635 of 5 stars
$83.11
-0.1%
$97.44
+17.2%
+17.2%$25.13B$3.06B75.552,550Short Interest ↓
AVB
AvalonBay Communities
2.7004 of 5 stars
$175.93
-0.7%
$203.40
+15.6%
-18.6%$24.98B$2.59B24.132,947Dividend Announcement
WTW
Willis Towers Watson Public
2.7926 of 5 stars
$227.50
+0.3%
$266.85
+17.3%
+2.9%$24.21B$8.87B22.8246,600
TROW
T. Rowe Price Group
2.1869 of 5 stars
$107.69
+2.1%
$93.30
-13.4%
-17.9%$24.18B$6.49B17.637,868
NDAQ
Nasdaq
2.7279 of 5 stars
$55.22
+0.5%
$63.67
+15.3%
+4.5%$27.10B$6.23B24.046,377Dividend Increase
Positive News
CBRE
CBRE Group
2.2268 of 5 stars
$76.81
+1.9%
$89.86
+17.0%
-10.1%$23.88B$30.91B22.07115,000Short Interest ↑
EQR
Equity Residential
2.38 of 5 stars
$61.34
-0.4%
$71.50
+16.6%
-23.7%$23.33B$2.79B25.242,400Analyst Downgrade
STT
State Street
2.9993 of 5 stars
$69.06
+0.9%
$82.21
+19.0%
-6.3%$23.24B$13.69B9.6742,226
DLR
Digital Realty Trust
2.4722 of 5 stars
$94.20
-1.5%
$116.92
+24.1%
-30.1%$28.00B$4.69B84.863,412Dividend Announcement
Positive News
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This page (NYSE:DFS) was last updated on 5/29/2023 by MarketBeat.com Staff

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