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$4.09 -0.07 (-1.68%)
Closing price 07/11/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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LYG vs. HSBC, HDB, RY, MUFG, C, TD, SAN, IBN, UBS, and SMFG

Should you be buying Lloyds Banking Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lloyds Banking Group include HSBC (HSBC), HDFC Bank (HDB), Royal Bank Of Canada (RY), Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Citigroup (C), Toronto Dominion Bank (TD), Banco Santander (SAN), ICICI Bank (IBN), UBS Group (UBS), and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.

Lloyds Banking Group vs. Its Competitors

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

HSBC has a net margin of 14.55% compared to Lloyds Banking Group's net margin of 14.39%. HSBC's return on equity of 12.55% beat Lloyds Banking Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Lloyds Banking Group14.39% 8.62% 0.44%
HSBC 14.55%12.55%0.81%

Lloyds Banking Group pays an annual dividend of $0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. HSBC pays an annual dividend of $1.98 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Lloyds Banking Group pays out 62.9% 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.

HSBC has a consensus target price of $63.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.16%. Given HSBC's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe HSBC is more favorable than Lloyds Banking Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Lloyds Banking Group
0 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.44
HSBC
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

2.2% of Lloyds Banking Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.5% of HSBC shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Lloyds Banking Group 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 stock is poised for long-term growth.

Lloyds Banking Group has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HSBC has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Lloyds Banking Group$43.81B1.41$5.65B$0.3511.69
HSBC$68.12B3.16$23.98B$5.4511.32

In the previous week, HSBC had 38 more articles in the media than Lloyds Banking Group. MarketBeat recorded 42 mentions for HSBC and 4 mentions for Lloyds Banking Group. Lloyds Banking Group's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat HSBC's score of 0.43 indicating that Lloyds Banking Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Lloyds Banking Group
2 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
HSBC
14 Very Positive mention(s)
6 Positive mention(s)
17 Neutral mention(s)
4 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Summary

HSBC beats Lloyds Banking Group on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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LYG vs. The Competition

MetricLloyds Banking GroupBANKS IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$61.75B$67.72B$12.08B$20.65B
Dividend Yield5.37%3.70%5.54%3.72%
P/E Ratio11.698.8719.2027.84
Price / Sales1.414.2925.6642.37
Price / Cash6.629.3321.4522.32
Price / Book1.061.332.284.57
Net Income$5.65B$6.77B$992.82M$989.30M
7 Day Performance-1.33%-0.23%-0.20%0.20%
1 Month Performance-2.04%3.20%3.93%5.53%
1 Year Performance35.43%39.40%539.44%10.30%

Lloyds Banking Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LYG
Lloyds Banking Group
4.1033 of 5 stars
$4.09
-1.7%
N/A+35.7%$61.75B$43.81B11.6961,228News Coverage
HSBC
HSBC
2.4607 of 5 stars
$60.79
0.0%
$63.00
+3.6%
+40.8%$213.84B$141.75B9.01211,304Trending News
HDB
HDFC Bank
1.4325 of 5 stars
$76.70
-0.4%
N/A+25.7%$195.06B$55.70B23.24213,527Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
RY
Royal Bank Of Canada
4.8509 of 5 stars
$131.66
+1.5%
$193.00
+46.6%
+18.5%$182.97B$98.71B14.6394,838Trending News
MUFG
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
4.0535 of 5 stars
$13.72
-1.2%
N/A+23.4%$167.62B$89.51B12.40140,000News Coverage
C
Citigroup
4.9438 of 5 stars
$85.14
+0.9%
$84.03
-1.3%
+34.4%$157.60B$170.76B13.33239,000Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
TD
Toronto Dominion Bank
4.2241 of 5 stars
$73.49
+1.2%
$93.00
+26.5%
+29.6%$124.89B$88.27B10.78102,190Positive News
SAN
Banco Santander
3.6435 of 5 stars
$8.29
+0.6%
N/A+73.5%$124.86B$66.96B9.53199,958
IBN
ICICI Bank
1.2483 of 5 stars
$33.65
-0.6%
N/A+14.1%$120.82B$22.68B21.57187,765Stock Split
UBS
UBS Group
3.6383 of 5 stars
$33.84
+1.2%
N/A+14.4%$107.22B$84.56B22.41108,648Trending News
SMFG
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group
4.1342 of 5 stars
$15.11
-0.6%
N/A+8.8%$98.41B$66.82B16.52120,000

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This page (NYSE:LYG) was last updated on 7/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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