UBS vs. BAC, WFC, C, PNC, USB, COF, TFC, HBAN, RF, and SHG
Should you be buying UBS Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UBS Group include Bank of America (BAC), Wells Fargo & Company (WFC), Citigroup (C), The PNC Financial Services Group (PNC), U.S. Bancorp (USB), Capital One Financial (COF), Truist Financial (TFC), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), and Shinhan Financial Group (SHG). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) and UBS Group (NYSE:UBS) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, community ranking, risk and media sentiment.
Bank of America pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. UBS Group pays an annual dividend of $0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Bank of America pays out 33.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. UBS Group pays out 2.4% 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 10 consecutive years and UBS Group has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Bank of America is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Bank of America has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, UBS Group has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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 large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
UBS Group has a net margin of 39.78% compared to UBS Group's net margin of 13.94%. UBS Group's return on equity of 10.88% beat Bank of America's return on equity.
Bank of America currently has a consensus target price of $39.26, suggesting a potential downside of 1.31%. Given UBS Group's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Bank of America is more favorable than UBS Group.
Bank of America received 1324 more outperform votes than UBS Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.71% of users gave Bank of America an outperform vote while only 56.05% of users gave UBS Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Bank of America had 28 more articles in the media than UBS Group. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Bank of America and 5 mentions for UBS Group. UBS Group's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Bank of America's score of 0.19 indicating that Bank of America is being referred to more favorably in the media.
UBS Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Bank of America. UBS Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bank of America, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Bank of America beats UBS Group on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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