SMFG vs. SAN, BMO, BBVA, IBN, ING, HDB, TD, CM, LYG, and BCS
Should you be buying Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group include Banco Santander (SAN), Bank of Montreal (BMO), Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), ICICI Bank (IBN), ING Groep (ING), HDFC Bank (HDB), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM), Lloyds Banking Group (LYG), and Barclays (BCS). These companies are all part of the "commercial banks, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Banco Santander (NYSE:SAN) and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (NYSE:SMFG) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, risk and media sentiment.
Banco Santander has a net margin of 19.29% compared to Banco Santander's net margin of 9.71%. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group's return on equity of 10.82% beat Banco Santander's return on equity.
9.2% of Banco Santander shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.9% of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.5% of Banco Santander shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Banco Santander has higher revenue and earnings than Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group. Banco Santander 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.
Banco Santander received 318 more outperform votes than Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.13% of users gave Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group an outperform vote while only 49.61% of users gave Banco Santander an outperform vote.
Banco Santander has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Banco Santander pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $0.29 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Banco Santander pays out 17.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group pays out 33.0% 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. Banco Santander has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Banco Santander is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Banco Santander had 16 more articles in the media than Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Banco Santander and 0 mentions for Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Banco Santander's score of -1.45 indicating that Banco Santander is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Banco Santander beats Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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