HSBC vs. BAC, HDB, RY, MUFG, C, IBN, SAN, TD, UBS, and SMFG
Should you be buying HSBC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HSBC include Bank of America (BAC), HDFC Bank (HDB), Royal Bank of Canada (RY), Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Citigroup (C), ICICI Bank (IBN), Banco Santander (SAN), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), UBS Group (UBS), and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
HSBC vs.
Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) and HSBC (NYSE:HSBC) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Bank of America currently has a consensus price target of $47.69, indicating a potential upside of 5.72%. HSBC has a consensus price target of $63.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.71%. Given Bank of America's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Bank of America is more favorable than HSBC.
In the previous week, Bank of America had 61 more articles in the media than HSBC. MarketBeat recorded 90 mentions for Bank of America and 29 mentions for HSBC. Bank of America's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat HSBC's score of 0.56 indicating that Bank of America is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Bank of America has higher revenue and earnings than HSBC. HSBC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bank of America, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bank of America pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. HSBC pays an annual dividend of $1.98 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Bank of America pays out 31.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HSBC pays out 36.3% 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 increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years.
Bank of America has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HSBC has a beta of 0.58, indicating that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
HSBC has a net margin of 16.17% compared to Bank of America's net margin of 14.10%. HSBC's return on equity of 12.20% beat Bank of America's return on equity.
70.7% of Bank of America shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.5% of HSBC shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Bank of America shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of HSBC shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Bank of America received 1184 more outperform votes than HSBC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.70% of users gave Bank of America an outperform vote while only 58.21% of users gave HSBC an outperform vote.
Summary
Bank of America beats HSBC on 18 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:HSBC) was last updated on 6/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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