RY vs. MUFG, HDB, TD, IBN, SAN, SMFG, BMO, BBVA, ING, and CM
Should you be buying Royal Bank of Canada stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Royal Bank of Canada include Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), HDFC Bank (HDB), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), ICICI Bank (IBN), Banco Santander (SAN), Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), Bank of Montreal (BMO), Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), ING Groep (ING), and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM). These companies are all part of the "commercial banks, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (NYSE:MUFG) and Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE:RY) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Royal Bank of Canada has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Royal Bank of Canada has a consensus price target of $137.67, indicating a potential upside of 28.91%. Given Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Royal Bank of Canada is more favorable than Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has a net margin of 12.68% compared to Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group's net margin of 12.43%. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group's return on equity of 14.74% beat Royal Bank of Canada's return on equity.
Royal Bank of Canada received 516 more outperform votes than Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.36% of users gave Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group an outperform vote while only 55.71% of users gave Royal Bank of Canada an outperform vote.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Royal Bank of Canada pays an annual dividend of $4.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group pays out 25.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Royal Bank of Canada pays out 51.4% 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. Royal Bank of Canada has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Royal Bank of Canada is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Royal Bank of Canada has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Royal Bank of Canada, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
13.6% of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.3% of Royal Bank of Canada shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Royal Bank of Canada had 2 more articles in the media than Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Royal Bank of Canada and 12 mentions for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. Royal Bank of Canada's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group's score of 0.92 indicating that Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Royal Bank of Canada beats Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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