USB vs. WFC, CMA, BLX, C, UBS, PNC, TFC, MFG, COF, 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), The PNC Financial Services Group (PNC), Truist Financial (TFC), Mizuho Financial Group (MFG), Capital One Financial (COF), and Huntington Bancshares (HBAN). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
U.S. Bancorp (NYSE:USB) and Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
77.6% of U.S. Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.9% of Wells Fargo & Company shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of U.S. Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Wells Fargo & Company shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
U.S. Bancorp presently has a consensus price target of $47.76, indicating a potential upside of 5.06%. Wells Fargo & Company has a consensus price target of $59.31, indicating a potential downside of 1.80%. Given U.S. Bancorp's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe U.S. Bancorp is more favorable than Wells Fargo & Company.
U.S. Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Wells Fargo & Company pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. U.S. Bancorp pays out 64.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Wells Fargo & Company pays out 32.9% 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.
Wells Fargo & Company has a net margin of 15.17% compared to U.S. Bancorp's net margin of 12.55%. U.S. Bancorp's return on equity of 13.34% beat Wells Fargo & Company's return on equity.
U.S. Bancorp has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wells Fargo & Company has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Wells Fargo & Company had 6 more articles in the media than U.S. Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Wells Fargo & Company and 24 mentions for U.S. Bancorp. U.S. Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Wells Fargo & Company's score of 0.74 indicating that U.S. Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Wells Fargo & Company has higher revenue and earnings than U.S. Bancorp. Wells Fargo & Company is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than U.S. Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Wells Fargo & Company received 732 more outperform votes than U.S. Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.04% of users gave Wells Fargo & Company an outperform vote while only 57.63% of users gave U.S. Bancorp an outperform vote.
Summary
Wells Fargo & Company beats U.S. Bancorp on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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