SCHW vs. MS, GS, RJF, LPLA, SF, EVR, LAZ, PIPR, BGC, and OPY
Should you be buying Charles Schwab stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Charles Schwab include Morgan Stanley (MS), The Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Raymond James (RJF), LPL Financial (LPLA), Stifel Financial (SF), Evercore (EVR), Lazard (LAZ), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), BGC Group (BGC), and Oppenheimer (OPY). These companies are all part of the "investment banking & brokerage" industry.
Charles Schwab vs.
Charles Schwab (NYSE:SCHW) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
Charles Schwab currently has a consensus target price of $89.63, indicating a potential upside of 0.56%. Morgan Stanley has a consensus target price of $132.46, indicating a potential upside of 2.64%. Given Morgan Stanley's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Morgan Stanley is more favorable than Charles Schwab.
Charles Schwab has a net margin of 30.31% compared to Morgan Stanley's net margin of 12.48%. Charles Schwab's return on equity of 18.20% beat Morgan Stanley's return on equity.
Morgan Stanley has higher revenue and earnings than Charles Schwab. Morgan Stanley is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Charles Schwab, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Charles Schwab has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Morgan Stanley has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Morgan Stanley received 447 more outperform votes than Charles Schwab when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.92% of users gave Charles Schwab an outperform vote while only 58.72% of users gave Morgan Stanley an outperform vote.
Charles Schwab pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Morgan Stanley pays an annual dividend of $3.70 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Charles Schwab pays out 32.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Morgan Stanley pays out 43.4% 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. Charles Schwab has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Morgan Stanley has increased its dividend for 12 consecutive years. Morgan Stanley is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
84.4% of Charles Schwab shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.2% of Morgan Stanley shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.3% of Charles Schwab 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 large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Morgan Stanley had 92 more articles in the media than Charles Schwab. MarketBeat recorded 174 mentions for Morgan Stanley and 82 mentions for Charles Schwab. Charles Schwab's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Morgan Stanley's score of 0.50 indicating that Charles Schwab is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Charles Schwab beats Morgan Stanley on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:SCHW) was last updated on 5/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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