UBS vs. BAC, HSBC, HDB, RY, MUFG, C, IBN, SAN, TD, and SMFG
Should you be buying UBS Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UBS Group include Bank of America (BAC), HSBC (HSBC), HDFC Bank (HDB), Royal Bank of Canada (RY), Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Citigroup (C), ICICI Bank (IBN), Banco Santander (SAN), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
UBS Group vs. Its Competitors
Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) and UBS Group (NYSE:UBS) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking and profitability.
Bank of America has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, UBS Group has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Bank of America presently has a consensus target price of $47.69, suggesting a potential upside of 6.65%. Given Bank of America's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Bank of America is more favorable than UBS Group.
70.7% of Bank of America shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Bank of America shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of UBS Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Bank of America pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. UBS Group pays an annual dividend of $0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Bank of America pays out 31.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. UBS Group pays out 14.6% 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 and UBS Group has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years. Bank of America is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Bank of America had 9 more articles in the media than UBS Group. MarketBeat recorded 93 mentions for Bank of America and 84 mentions for UBS Group. Bank of America's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat UBS Group's score of 0.82 indicating that Bank of America is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Bank of America has higher revenue and earnings than UBS Group. Bank of America is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UBS Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bank of America has a net margin of 14.10% compared to UBS Group's net margin of 6.93%. Bank of America's return on equity of 10.29% beat UBS Group's return on equity.
Bank of America received 1390 more outperform votes than UBS Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.68% of users gave Bank of America an outperform vote while only 54.09% of users gave UBS Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Bank of America beats UBS Group on 19 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:UBS) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
