AV vs. SAGA, LSEG, LLOY, BARC, NWG, PRU, STAN, LGEN, SMT, and AIBG
Should you be buying Aviva stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aviva include Saga (SAGA), London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY), Barclays (BARC), NatWest Group (NWG), Prudential (PRU), Standard Chartered (STAN), Legal & General Group (LGEN), Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (SMT), and AIB Group (AIBG). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Aviva (LON:AV) and Saga (LON:SAGA) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, valuation and community ranking.
Aviva has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Saga has a beta of 2.51, indicating that its stock price is 151% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Aviva has higher revenue and earnings than Saga. Saga is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aviva, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
48.4% of Aviva shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.1% of Saga shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Aviva shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 36.4% of Saga shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Saga had 13 more articles in the media than Aviva. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Saga and 1 mentions for Aviva. Aviva's average media sentiment score of 0.05 beat Saga's score of -0.45 indicating that Aviva is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Saga received 498 more outperform votes than Aviva when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.35% of users gave Saga an outperform vote while only 61.11% of users gave Aviva an outperform vote.
Aviva presently has a consensus target price of GBX 509.67, suggesting a potential upside of 6.20%. Given Aviva's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Aviva is more favorable than Saga.
Aviva pays an annual dividend of GBX 33 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. Saga pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Aviva pays out 8,918.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Saga pays out -246.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Aviva has a net margin of 5.03% compared to Saga's net margin of -14.97%. Aviva's return on equity of 11.16% beat Saga's return on equity.
Summary
Aviva beats Saga on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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