SYF vs. ING, BBVA, NU, MFG, CM, IX, BSBR, ALLY, BSAC, and WF
Should you be buying Synchrony Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Synchrony Financial include ING Groep (ING), Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), NU (NU), Mizuho Financial Group (MFG), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM), ORIX (IX), Banco Santander (Brasil) (BSBR), Ally Financial (ALLY), Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC), and Woori Financial Group (WF). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
ING Groep (NYSE:ING) 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, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
ING Groep has a net margin of 32.20% compared to ING Groep's net margin of 13.52%. ING Groep's return on equity of 16.06% beat Synchrony Financial's return on equity.
Synchrony Financial received 335 more outperform votes than ING Groep when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.72% of users gave Synchrony Financial an outperform vote while only 54.91% of users gave ING Groep an outperform vote.
ING Groep has a beta of 1.54, indicating that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Synchrony Financial has a beta of 1.63, indicating that its share price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ING Groep pays an annual dividend of $1.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. Synchrony Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. ING Groep pays out 61.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Synchrony Financial pays out 14.3% 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.
4.5% of ING Groep shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.5% of Synchrony Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Synchrony Financial 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.
ING Groep has higher revenue and earnings than Synchrony Financial. Synchrony Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ING Groep, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Synchrony Financial has a consensus price target of $50.50, suggesting a potential downside of 0.57%. Given ING Groep's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Synchrony Financial is more favorable than ING Groep.
In the previous week, Synchrony Financial had 9 more articles in the media than ING Groep. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Synchrony Financial and 8 mentions for ING Groep. ING Groep's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Synchrony Financial's score of 0.19 indicating that Synchrony Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Synchrony Financial beats ING Groep on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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