ITUB vs. HDB, HSBC, RY, MUFG, IBN, C, TD, SAN, UBS, and SMFG
Should you be buying Itaú Unibanco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Itaú Unibanco include HDFC Bank (HDB), HSBC (HSBC), Royal Bank of Canada (RY), Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), ICICI Bank (IBN), Citigroup (C), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), Banco Santander (SAN), UBS Group (UBS), and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Itaú Unibanco vs.
Itaú Unibanco (NYSE:ITUB) and HDFC Bank (NYSE:HDB) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation and profitability.
HDFC Bank has a net margin of 14.64% compared to Itaú Unibanco's net margin of 12.25%. Itaú Unibanco's return on equity of 19.46% beat HDFC Bank's return on equity.
Itaú Unibanco currently has a consensus price target of $6.27, indicating a potential downside of 0.43%. Given Itaú Unibanco's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Itaú Unibanco is more favorable than HDFC Bank.
17.6% of HDFC Bank shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Itaú Unibanco shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of HDFC Bank shares are held by 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.
Itaú Unibanco has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HDFC Bank has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Itaú Unibanco has higher earnings, but lower revenue than HDFC Bank. Itaú Unibanco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HDFC Bank, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Itaú Unibanco received 4 more outperform votes than HDFC Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.46% of users gave HDFC Bank an outperform vote while only 65.86% of users gave Itaú Unibanco an outperform vote.
In the previous week, HDFC Bank had 3 more articles in the media than Itaú Unibanco. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for HDFC Bank and 11 mentions for Itaú Unibanco. HDFC Bank's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Itaú Unibanco's score of 0.92 indicating that HDFC Bank is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Itaú Unibanco pays an annual dividend of $0.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. HDFC Bank pays an annual dividend of $0.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Itaú Unibanco pays out 2.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HDFC Bank pays out 20.0% 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.
Summary
HDFC Bank beats Itaú Unibanco on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:ITUB) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
