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SMFG vs. BAC, HSBC, HDB, RY, MUFG, C, TD, SAN, IBN, and UBS

Should you be buying Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group include Bank of America (BAC), 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), and UBS Group (UBS). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group vs. Its Competitors

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (NYSE:SMFG) and Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.

Bank of America has a consensus target price of $48.28, suggesting a potential downside of 1.34%. Given Bank of America's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Bank of America is more favorable than Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Bank of America
1 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
18 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.81

Bank of America has higher revenue and earnings than Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group. Bank of America is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group$66.82B1.49$7.77B$0.9116.90
Bank of America$192.43B1.92$27.13B$3.3614.57

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group has a beta of 0.39, indicating that its stock price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bank of America has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Bank of America has a net margin of 14.56% compared to Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group's net margin of 11.57%. Bank of America's return on equity of 10.25% beat Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group11.57% 7.96% 0.40%
Bank of America 14.56%10.25%0.84%

In the previous week, Bank of America had 117 more articles in the media than Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 119 mentions for Bank of America and 2 mentions for Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group. Bank of America's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group's score of 0.72 indicating that Bank of America is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Bank of America
68 Very Positive mention(s)
15 Positive mention(s)
21 Neutral mention(s)
11 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

3.9% of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.7% of Bank of America shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Bank of America 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.

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $0.11 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Bank of America pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group pays out 12.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bank of America pays out 31.0% 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.

Summary

Bank of America beats Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group on 18 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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SMFG vs. The Competition

MetricSumitomo Mitsui Financial GroupBANKS IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$99.54B$66.88B$12.05B$20.62B
Dividend Yield0.73%3.70%5.58%3.77%
P/E Ratio16.908.9520.0828.04
Price / Sales1.491.9425.7336.83
Price / Cash9.699.4621.3421.91
Price / Book1.021.362.284.59
Net Income$7.77B$6.85B$1.00B$985.44M
7 Day Performance0.99%1.39%2.31%2.91%
1 Month Performance0.10%3.97%4.37%5.47%
1 Year Performance12.68%41.29%541.13%14.61%

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SMFG
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group
3.9591 of 5 stars
$15.38
+1.8%
N/A+10.2%$99.54B$66.82B16.90120,000
BAC
Bank of America
4.926 of 5 stars
$46.32
+1.8%
$47.40
+2.3%
+18.9%$348.88B$192.43B13.79213,000Trending News
Analyst Forecast
HSBC
HSBC
2.2545 of 5 stars
$59.00
+1.0%
$63.00
+6.8%
+37.5%$207.44B$68.12B10.83211,304
HDB
HDFC Bank
1.5012 of 5 stars
$74.98
+0.5%
N/A+13.7%$189.88B$55.70B22.72213,527Trending News
RY
Royal Bank Of Canada
4.8154 of 5 stars
$127.20
-0.1%
$193.00
+51.7%
+21.9%$179.42B$98.71B14.1394,838Trending News
MUFG
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
4.2618 of 5 stars
$13.43
-0.6%
N/A+22.5%$162.02B$89.51B12.79140,000
C
Citigroup
4.9514 of 5 stars
$79.42
+1.2%
$83.30
+4.9%
+34.0%$148.34B$170.76B12.55239,000Trending News
Analyst Forecast
TD
Toronto Dominion Bank
3.7489 of 5 stars
$71.21
+0.5%
$93.00
+30.6%
+34.5%$122.51B$88.27B10.44102,190Positive News
SAN
Banco Santander
4.26 of 5 stars
$8.00
-1.4%
N/A+82.3%$121.22B$66.96B9.20199,958Trending News
High Trading Volume
IBN
ICICI Bank
2.4166 of 5 stars
$32.73
+0.3%
N/A+17.0%$116.75B$22.68B20.98187,765Stock Split
UBS
UBS Group
3.9724 of 5 stars
$31.06
+2.1%
N/A+15.7%$99.59B$84.56B20.57108,648Trending News

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This page (NYSE:SMFG) was last updated on 7/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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