NWG vs. BCS, LYG, CM, KB, BSBR, BAP, ING, BBVA, BMO, and SMFG
Should you be buying NatWest Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NatWest Group include Barclays (BCS), Lloyds Banking Group (LYG), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM), KB Financial Group (KB), Banco Santander (Brasil) (BSBR), Credicorp (BAP), ING Groep (ING), Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), Bank of Montreal (BMO), and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG). These companies are all part of the "commercial banks, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Barclays (NYSE:BCS) and NatWest Group (NYSE:NWG) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
Barclays has a net margin of 17.21% compared to Barclays' net margin of 0.00%. NatWest Group's return on equity of 6.13% beat Barclays' return on equity.
3.4% of Barclays shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.3% of NatWest Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Barclays shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Barclays pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. NatWest Group pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Barclays pays out 38.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Barclays has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and NatWest Group has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
In the previous week, NatWest Group had 1 more articles in the media than Barclays. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for NatWest Group and 6 mentions for Barclays. Barclays' average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat NatWest Group's score of 0.43 indicating that NatWest Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Barclays has higher revenue and earnings than NatWest Group.
Barclays has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NatWest Group has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Barclays received 1298 more outperform votes than NatWest Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.06% of users gave Barclays an outperform vote while only 39.22% of users gave NatWest Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Barclays beats NatWest Group on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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