ING vs. MUFG, BBVA, NU, MFG, CM, IX, BSBR, ALLY, BSAC, and SOFI
Should you be buying ING Groep stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ING Groep include Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), NU (NU), Mizuho Financial Group (MFG), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM), ORIX (IX), Banco Santander (Brasil) (BSBR), Ally Financial (ALLY), Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC), and SoFi Technologies (SOFI). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
ING Groep (NYSE:ING) and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (NYSE:MUFG) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and community ranking.
ING Groep received 317 more outperform votes than Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.36% of users gave Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group an outperform vote while only 54.91% of users gave ING Groep an outperform vote.
ING Groep has a net margin of 32.20% compared to Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group's net margin of 12.68%. ING Groep's return on equity of 13.22% beat Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group's return on equity.
ING Groep has a beta of 1.54, suggesting that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.
ING Groep pays an annual dividend of $1.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.4%. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. ING Groep pays out 61.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group pays out 23.0% 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.
In the previous week, ING Groep had 7 more articles in the media than Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for ING Groep and 2 mentions for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. ING Groep's average media sentiment score of 0.19 beat Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group's score of 0.04 indicating that ING Groep is being referred to more favorably in the media.
4.5% of ING Groep shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.6% of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group shares are held 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.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has higher revenue and earnings than ING Groep. ING Groep is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
ING Groep beats Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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