ITUB vs. HSBC, HDB, RY, MUFG, C, IBN, SAN, TD, UBS, and SMFG
Should you be buying Itaú Unibanco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Itaú Unibanco include HSBC (HSBC), 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.
Itaú Unibanco vs. Its Competitors
HSBC (NYSE:HSBC) and Itaú Unibanco (NYSE:ITUB) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
HSBC has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Itaú Unibanco. Itaú Unibanco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HSBC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
1.5% of HSBC shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of HSBC shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Itaú Unibanco shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
HSBC pays an annual dividend of $1.98 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Itaú Unibanco pays an annual dividend of $0.21 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. HSBC pays out 36.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Itaú Unibanco pays out 29.6% 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.
HSBC presently has a consensus price target of $63.00, suggesting a potential upside of 6.02%. Itaú Unibanco has a consensus price target of $6.27, suggesting a potential downside of 4.74%. Given HSBC's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe HSBC is more favorable than Itaú Unibanco.
In the previous week, HSBC had 23 more articles in the media than Itaú Unibanco. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for HSBC and 3 mentions for Itaú Unibanco. Itaú Unibanco's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat HSBC's score of 0.39 indicating that Itaú Unibanco is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
HSBC has a net margin of 16.17% compared to Itaú Unibanco's net margin of 12.25%. Itaú Unibanco's return on equity of 19.46% beat HSBC's return on equity.
HSBC received 535 more outperform votes than Itaú Unibanco when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.86% of users gave Itaú Unibanco an outperform vote while only 58.21% of users gave HSBC an outperform vote.
HSBC has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Itaú Unibanco has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
HSBC and Itaú Unibanco tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:ITUB) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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