MS vs. GS, SCHW, BLK, IBKR, RY, AXP, HDB, TD, MUFG, and PLD
Should you be buying Morgan Stanley stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Morgan Stanley include The Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Charles Schwab (SCHW), BlackRock (BLK), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), Royal Bank of Canada (RY), American Express (AXP), HDFC Bank (HDB), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), and Prologis (PLD). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
The Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE:GS) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
The Goldman Sachs Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Morgan Stanley. Morgan Stanley is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The Goldman Sachs Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
The Goldman Sachs Group received 28 more outperform votes than Morgan Stanley when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.28% of users gave Morgan Stanley an outperform vote while only 60.12% of users gave The Goldman Sachs Group an outperform vote.
69.1% of The Goldman Sachs Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.1% of Morgan Stanley shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of The Goldman Sachs Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Morgan Stanley shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
The Goldman Sachs Group presently has a consensus target price of $393.99, suggesting a potential upside of 15.28%. Morgan Stanley has a consensus target price of $93.43, suggesting a potential upside of 16.54%. Given The Goldman Sachs Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Morgan Stanley is more favorable than The Goldman Sachs Group.
The Goldman Sachs Group has a beta of 1.44, meaning that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Morgan Stanley has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
The Goldman Sachs Group pays an annual dividend of $11.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Morgan Stanley pays an annual dividend of $3.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. The Goldman Sachs Group pays out 53.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Morgan Stanley pays out 60.9% 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. The Goldman Sachs Group has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Morgan Stanley has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
In the previous week, The Goldman Sachs Group had 12 more articles in the media than Morgan Stanley. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for The Goldman Sachs Group and 18 mentions for Morgan Stanley. The Goldman Sachs Group's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Morgan Stanley's score of 0.52 indicating that Morgan Stanley is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Morgan Stanley has a net margin of 10.86% compared to Morgan Stanley's net margin of 7.77%. The Goldman Sachs Group's return on equity of 10.70% beat Morgan Stanley's return on equity.
Summary
Morgan Stanley beats The Goldman Sachs Group on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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