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HDB vs. BAC, HSBC, RY, C, MUFG, SAN, TD, IBN, UBS, and SMFG

Should you be buying HDFC Bank stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HDFC Bank include Bank of America (BAC), HSBC (HSBC), Royal Bank Of Canada (RY), Citigroup (C), Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Banco Santander (SAN), Toronto Dominion Bank (TD), ICICI Bank (IBN), UBS Group (UBS), and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.

HDFC Bank vs. Its Competitors

HDFC Bank (NYSE:HDB) and Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, risk and media sentiment.

HDFC Bank has a net margin of 15.02% compared to Bank of America's net margin of 14.81%. HDFC Bank's return on equity of 13.85% beat Bank of America's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
HDFC Bank15.02% 13.85% 1.69%
Bank of America 14.81%10.25%0.84%

Bank of America has a consensus target price of $50.03, suggesting a potential upside of 5.69%. Given Bank of America's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Bank of America is more favorable than HDFC Bank.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
HDFC Bank
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Bank of America
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
17 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.83

17.6% of HDFC Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.7% of Bank of America shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of HDFC Bank shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Bank of America shares are owned by 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.

HDFC Bank has a beta of 0.64, meaning that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bank of America has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Bank of America has higher revenue and earnings than HDFC Bank. Bank of America is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HDFC Bank, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
HDFC Bank$55.70B3.42$8.35B$3.3022.82
Bank of America$192.43B1.85$27.13B$3.3614.09

In the previous week, Bank of America had 105 more articles in the media than HDFC Bank. MarketBeat recorded 145 mentions for Bank of America and 40 mentions for HDFC Bank. Bank of America's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat HDFC Bank's score of 0.62 indicating that Bank of America is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
HDFC Bank
20 Very Positive mention(s)
6 Positive mention(s)
9 Neutral mention(s)
3 Negative mention(s)
2 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Bank of America
71 Very Positive mention(s)
36 Positive mention(s)
31 Neutral mention(s)
4 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

HDFC Bank pays an annual dividend of $0.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Bank of America pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. HDFC Bank pays out 20.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bank of America pays out 31.0% 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. Bank of America has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years. Bank of America is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Summary

Bank of America beats HDFC Bank on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding HDB 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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HDB vs. The Competition

MetricHDFC BankBANKS IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$192.81B$66.62B$12.11B$20.85B
Dividend Yield0.87%3.69%5.56%3.65%
P/E Ratio22.828.8218.3726.34
Price / Sales3.424.4226.0759.22
Price / Cash20.209.3321.6822.29
Price / Book3.001.332.314.66
Net Income$8.35B$6.73B$997.60M$994.58M
7 Day Performance-0.92%-0.55%0.42%-0.29%
1 Month Performance1.09%2.53%4.37%4.91%
1 Year Performance24.88%38.54%541.75%10.53%

HDFC Bank Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HDB
HDFC Bank
1.404 of 5 stars
$75.30
-1.1%
N/A+26.2%$192.81B$55.70B22.82213,527
BAC
Bank of America
4.8638 of 5 stars
$48.65
-0.6%
$48.28
-0.8%
+7.0%$366.43B$192.43B14.48213,000Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
HSBC
HSBC
2.4659 of 5 stars
$60.87
+0.3%
$63.00
+3.5%
+45.4%$214.02B$141.75B11.17211,304Trending News
RY
Royal Bank Of Canada
4.8243 of 5 stars
$131.83
-0.6%
$193.00
+46.4%
+18.7%$185.96B$98.71B14.6594,838Trending News
C
Citigroup
4.9596 of 5 stars
$87.56
-1.3%
$85.43
-2.4%
+37.7%$163.54B$81.68B13.83239,000Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Increase
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Options Volume
MUFG
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
4.2323 of 5 stars
$13.50
-3.3%
N/A+19.4%$162.91B$89.51B12.86140,000Gap Down
SAN
Banco Santander
3.4099 of 5 stars
$8.54
-0.1%
N/A+74.8%$129.40B$66.96B9.82199,958Upcoming Earnings
High Trading Volume
TD
Toronto Dominion Bank
4.1315 of 5 stars
$74.13
-1.2%
$93.00
+25.5%
+26.5%$127.54B$58.76B10.87102,190News Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume
IBN
ICICI Bank
1.23 of 5 stars
$33.47
-0.9%
N/A+13.4%$119.39B$22.68B21.46187,765Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Stock Split
UBS
UBS Group
3.6393 of 5 stars
$34.15
-2.1%
N/A+16.2%$109.50B$44.79B22.62108,648Trending News
SMFG
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group
4.1255 of 5 stars
$14.84
-2.9%
N/A+7.0%$95.81B$66.82B16.31120,000

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This page (NYSE:HDB) was last updated on 7/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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