ING Groep (ING) Competitors

HSBC (NYSE:HSBC) and ING Groep (NYSE:ING) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Do institutionals and insiders believe in HSBC or ING?

1.5% of HSBC shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.5% of ING Groep shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of HSBC shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts recommend HSBC or ING?

HSBC currently has a consensus price target of $63.00, indicating a potential upside of 6.02%. Given HSBC's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe HSBC is more favorable than ING Groep.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
HSBC	0 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50
ING Groep	0 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer HSBC or ING?

HSBC received 466 more outperform votes than ING Groep when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.21% of users gave HSBC an outperform vote while only 54.77% of users gave ING Groep an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
HSBC	Outperform Votes 971 58.21%	Underperform Votes 697 41.79%
ING Groep	Outperform Votes 505 54.77%	Underperform Votes 417 45.23%

Which has higher valuation and earnings, HSBC or ING?

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

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
HSBC	$68.12B	3.07	$23.53B	$5.45	10.90
ING Groep	$22.58B	3.25	$6.92B	$2.11	9.95

Is HSBC or ING a better dividend stock?

HSBC pays an annual dividend of $1.98 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. ING Groep pays an annual dividend of $1.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. HSBC pays out 36.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ING Groep pays out 64.5% 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.

Is HSBC or ING more profitable?

ING Groep has a net margin of 28.30% compared to HSBC's net margin of 16.17%. HSBC's return on equity of 12.20% beat ING Groep's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
HSBC	16.17%	12.20%	0.79%
ING Groep	28.30%	11.81%	0.61%

Does the media prefer HSBC or ING?

In the previous week, HSBC had 19 more articles in the media than ING Groep. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for HSBC and 7 mentions for ING Groep. ING Groep's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat HSBC's score of 0.39 indicating that ING Groep is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
HSBC	12 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	10 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
ING Groep	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	5 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has more risk & volatility, HSBC or ING?

HSBC has a beta of 0.58, meaning that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ING Groep has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

HSBC beats ING Groep on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.