Synchrony Financial (NYSE:SYF) Vs. COIN, LU, UPST, SOFI, WD, QFIN, COOP, GDOT, LDI, and SII
Should you be buying Synchrony Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Synchrony Financial include Coinbase Global (COIN), Lufax (LU), Upstart (UPST), SoFi Technologies (SOFI), Walker & Dunlop (WD), 360 DigiTech (QFIN), Mr. Cooper Group (COOP), Green Dot (GDOT), loanDepot (LDI), and Sprott (SII). These companies are all part of the "nondepository credit institutions" industry.
Synchrony Financial vs.
Lufax (NYSE:LU) and Synchrony Financial (NYSE:SYF) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.
Lufax has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Synchrony Financial. Lufax is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Synchrony Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lufax has a net margin of 28.26% compared to Synchrony Financial's net margin of 27.12%. Synchrony Financial's return on equity of 30.68% beat Lufax's return on equity.
In the previous week, Synchrony Financial had 6 more articles in the media than Lufax. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Synchrony Financial and 3 mentions for Lufax. Lufax's average media sentiment score of 0.48 beat Synchrony Financial's score of 0.44 indicating that Lufax is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Synchrony Financial received 767 more outperform votes than Lufax when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.58% of users gave Synchrony Financial an outperform vote while only 61.90% of users gave Lufax an outperform vote.
9.2% of Lufax shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.9% of Synchrony Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Synchrony Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Lufax currently has a consensus target price of $15.11, suggesting a potential upside of 148.93%. Synchrony Financial has a consensus target price of $57.87, suggesting a potential upside of 27.80%. Given Lufax's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Lufax is more favorable than Synchrony Financial.
Summary
Synchrony Financial beats Lufax on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding SYF and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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.
Synchrony Financial (NYSE:SYF) vs. Its Competitors
Synchrony Financial Competitors List
