SAN vs. BAC, HSBC, HDB, RY, MUFG, C, IBN, TD, UBS, and SMFG
Should you be buying Banco Santander stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Banco Santander include Bank of America (BAC), HSBC (HSBC), HDFC Bank (HDB), Royal Bank of Canada (RY), Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Citigroup (C), ICICI Bank (IBN), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), UBS Group (UBS), and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Banco Santander vs. Its Competitors
Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) and Banco Santander (NYSE:SAN) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Bank of America has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Banco Santander has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Bank of America received 1577 more outperform votes than Banco Santander when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.68% of users gave Bank of America an outperform vote while only 49.91% of users gave Banco Santander an outperform vote.
70.7% of Bank of America shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.2% of Banco Santander shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Bank of America shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.5% of Banco Santander shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Banco Santander has a net margin of 15.88% compared to Bank of America's net margin of 14.10%. Banco Santander's return on equity of 11.90% beat Bank of America's return on equity.
Bank of America pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Banco Santander pays an annual dividend of $0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Bank of America pays out 31.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Banco Santander pays out 20.7% 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. Bank of America has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years. Bank of America is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Bank of America currently has a consensus target price of $47.69, suggesting a potential upside of 6.65%. Given Bank of America's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Bank of America is more favorable than Banco Santander.
In the previous week, Bank of America had 87 more articles in the media than Banco Santander. MarketBeat recorded 93 mentions for Bank of America and 6 mentions for Banco Santander. Bank of America's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Banco Santander's score of 0.41 indicating that Bank of America is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Bank of America has higher revenue and earnings than Banco Santander. Banco Santander is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bank of America, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Bank of America beats Banco Santander on 17 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:SAN) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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