RY vs. MKL, AB, TFSL, CNO, AVAL, TCBI, PPBI, RONI, FSCO, and OXLC
Should you be buying Royal Bank of Canada stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Royal Bank of Canada include Markel Group (MKL), AllianceBernstein (AB), TFS Financial (TFSL), CNO Financial Group (CNO), Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores (AVAL), Texas Capital Bancshares (TCBI), Pacific Premier Bancorp (PPBI), Rice Acquisition Corp. II (RONI), FS Credit Opportunities (FSCO), and Oxford Lane Capital (OXLC).
Markel Group (NYSE:MKL) and Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE:RY) are both large-cap multi-sector conglomerates companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Markel Group presently has a consensus price target of $1,450.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.90%. Royal Bank of Canada has a consensus price target of $137.67, indicating a potential upside of 41.52%. Given Markel Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Royal Bank of Canada is more favorable than Markel Group.
Markel Group has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Royal Bank of Canada has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Royal Bank of Canada received 400 more outperform votes than Markel Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.29% of users gave Markel Group an outperform vote while only 55.93% of users gave Royal Bank of Canada an outperform vote.
Royal Bank of Canada has higher revenue and earnings than Markel Group. Markel Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Royal Bank of Canada, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Markel Group has a net margin of 12.63% compared to Markel Group's net margin of 12.43%. Markel Group's return on equity of 14.74% beat Royal Bank of Canada's return on equity.
77.1% of Markel Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.3% of Royal Bank of Canada shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Markel Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Royal Bank of Canada had 1 more articles in the media than Markel Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Royal Bank of Canada and 6 mentions for Markel Group. Markel Group's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Royal Bank of Canada's score of 0.78 indicating that Royal Bank of Canada is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Royal Bank of Canada beats Markel Group on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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