USB vs. WFC, CMA, BLX, C, UBS, COF, MFG, PNC, TFC, and HBAN
Should you be buying U.S. Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of U.S. Bancorp include Wells Fargo & Company (WFC), Comerica (CMA), Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S. A. (BLX), Citigroup (C), UBS Group (UBS), Capital One Financial (COF), Mizuho Financial Group (MFG), The PNC Financial Services Group (PNC), Truist Financial (TFC), and Huntington Bancshares (HBAN). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
U.S. Bancorp vs.
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) and U.S. Bancorp (NYSE:USB) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Wells Fargo & Company has a net margin of 15.73% compared to U.S. Bancorp's net margin of 14.75%. U.S. Bancorp's return on equity of 12.94% beat Wells Fargo & Company's return on equity.
Wells Fargo & Company has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, U.S. Bancorp has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Wells Fargo & Company pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. U.S. Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Wells Fargo & Company pays out 28.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. U.S. Bancorp pays out 49.5% 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. U.S. Bancorp has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years. U.S. Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
75.9% of Wells Fargo & Company shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.6% of U.S. Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Wells Fargo & Company shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of U.S. Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Wells Fargo & Company had 90 more articles in the media than U.S. Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 115 mentions for Wells Fargo & Company and 25 mentions for U.S. Bancorp. U.S. Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.31 beat Wells Fargo & Company's score of 1.01 indicating that U.S. Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Wells Fargo & Company has higher revenue and earnings than U.S. Bancorp. U.S. Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wells Fargo & Company, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Wells Fargo & Company currently has a consensus price target of $75.34, suggesting a potential upside of 6.00%. U.S. Bancorp has a consensus price target of $50.48, suggesting a potential upside of 25.04%. Given U.S. Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe U.S. Bancorp is more favorable than Wells Fargo & Company.
Wells Fargo & Company received 843 more outperform votes than U.S. Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.47% of users gave Wells Fargo & Company an outperform vote while only 57.88% of users gave U.S. Bancorp an outperform vote.
Summary
Wells Fargo & Company beats U.S. Bancorp on 14 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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