BARC vs. BNC, STAN, CABP, HSBA, LSEG, LLOY, NWG, PRU, LGEN, and AV
Should you be buying Barclays stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barclays include Banco Santander (BNC), Standard Chartered (STAN), CAB Payments (CABP), HSBC (HSBA), London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY), NatWest Group (NWG), Prudential (PRU), Legal & General Group (LGEN), and Aviva (AV). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Barclays (LON:BARC) and Banco Santander (LON:BNC) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings and media sentiment.
Barclays pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Banco Santander pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Barclays pays out 3,076.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Banco Santander pays out 2,631.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Banco Santander is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Barclays presently has a consensus target price of GBX 265, suggesting a potential upside of 23.89%. Given Barclays' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Barclays is more favorable than Banco Santander.
Barclays has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Banco Santander has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Barclays had 2 more articles in the media than Banco Santander. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Barclays and 0 mentions for Banco Santander. Barclays' average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Banco Santander's score of 0.00 indicating that Barclays is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Banco Santander has higher revenue and earnings than Barclays. Banco Santander is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Barclays, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
52.7% of Barclays shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.2% of Banco Santander shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Barclays shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Banco Santander shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Banco Santander has a net margin of 24.68% compared to Barclays' net margin of 21.70%. Banco Santander's return on equity of 12.16% beat Barclays' return on equity.
Barclays received 2303 more outperform votes than Banco Santander when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.70% of users gave Barclays an outperform vote while only 64.74% of users gave Banco Santander an outperform vote.
Summary
Barclays beats Banco Santander on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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