BARC vs. STAN, BNC, LLOY, NWG, PRU, LSEG, LGEN, AV, SMT, and AIBG
Should you be buying Barclays stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barclays include Standard Chartered (STAN), Banco Santander (BNC), Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY), NatWest Group (NWG), Prudential (PRU), London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), Legal & General Group (LGEN), Aviva (AV), Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (SMT), and AIB Group (AIBG). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Barclays (LON:BARC) and Standard Chartered (LON:STAN) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation.
Barclays pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Standard Chartered pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. 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. Standard Chartered pays out 2,359.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Barclays currently has a consensus target price of GBX 242, indicating a potential upside of 11.65%. Standard Chartered has a consensus target price of GBX 951.33, indicating a potential upside of 21.72%. Given Standard Chartered's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Standard Chartered is more favorable than Barclays.
Barclays received 1552 more outperform votes than Standard Chartered when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.69% of users gave Barclays an outperform vote while only 58.85% of users gave Standard Chartered an outperform vote.
Barclays has higher revenue and earnings than Standard Chartered. Barclays is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Standard Chartered, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Barclays had 25 more articles in the media than Standard Chartered. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Barclays and 4 mentions for Standard Chartered. Barclays' average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat Standard Chartered's score of 0.06 indicating that Barclays is being referred to more favorably in the media.
52.7% of Barclays shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.0% of Standard Chartered shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Barclays shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Standard Chartered shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Barclays has a net margin of 21.70% compared to Standard Chartered's net margin of 20.70%. Barclays' return on equity of 7.13% beat Standard Chartered's return on equity.
Barclays has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Standard Chartered has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Barclays beats Standard Chartered on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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