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Nationwide Building Society (NBS) Competitors

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GBX 130.50 +0.50 (+0.38%)
As of 04/17/2025

NBS vs. VMUK, BGEO, TBCG, BOCH, PTSB, MTRO, CBG, ARBB, STB, and CBKD

Should you be buying Nationwide Building Society stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nationwide Building Society include Virgin Money UK (VMUK), Bank of Georgia Group (BGEO), TBC Bank Group (TBCG), Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public (BOCH), Permanent TSB Group (PTSB), Metro Bank (MTRO), Close Brothers Group (CBG), Arbuthnot Banking Group (ARBB), Secure Trust Bank (STB), and Commercial International Bank (Egypt) S.A.E. (CBKD). These companies are all part of the "banks - regional" industry.

Nationwide Building Society vs.

Nationwide Building Society (LON:NBS) and Virgin Money UK (LON:VMUK) are both financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership and profitability.

Virgin Money UK received 17 more outperform votes than Nationwide Building Society when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.41% of users gave Nationwide Building Society an outperform vote while only 61.07% of users gave Virgin Money UK an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Nationwide Building SocietyOutperform Votes
63
72.41%
Underperform Votes
24
27.59%
Virgin Money UKOutperform Votes
80
61.07%
Underperform Votes
51
38.93%

Nationwide Building Society has a beta of 0.3, suggesting that its stock price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Virgin Money UK has a beta of 1.89, suggesting that its stock price is 89% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Virgin Money UK has a net margin of 15.84% compared to Nationwide Building Society's net margin of 14.17%. Nationwide Building Society's return on equity of 7.71% beat Virgin Money UK's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Nationwide Building Society14.17% 7.71% 0.48%
Virgin Money UK 15.84%5.35%0.33%

Nationwide Building Society has higher revenue and earnings than Virgin Money UK. Virgin Money UK is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nationwide Building Society, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Nationwide Building Society£1.07T0.00£151.90B£141.120.92
Virgin Money UK£1.58B0.00£250M£0.23N/A

In the previous week, Nationwide Building Society's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Virgin Money UK's score of 0.00 indicating that Nationwide Building Society is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Nationwide Building Society Positive
Virgin Money UK Neutral

138.0% of Nationwide Building Society shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.5% of Virgin Money UK shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.2% of Virgin Money UK shares are owned 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.

Summary

Nationwide Building Society beats Virgin Money UK on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

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NBS vs. The Competition

MetricNationwide Building SocietyBanks IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£1.39B£6.32B£3.70B£2.52B
Dividend YieldN/A4.28%4.16%4.80%
P/E Ratio0.928.0813.97130.69
Price / Sales0.0040.701,660.40234,951.35
Price / Cash0.0414.2550.4928.35
Price / Book0.000.603.364.43
Net Income£151.90B£15.75B£1.18B£5.88B
7 Day Performance0.49%1.33%2.02%2.87%
1 Month Performance-0.34%-1.96%0.26%-0.96%
1 Year Performance-99.03%15.96%9.47%22.28%

Nationwide Building Society Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NBS
Nationwide Building Society
N/AGBX 130.50
+0.4%
N/AN/A£1.39B£1.07T0.9218,099
VMUK
Virgin Money UK
N/AN/AN/AN/A£2.83B£1.58B946.098,110
BGEO
Bank of Georgia Group
N/AGBX 4,988
+5.1%
N/A+11.5%£2.20B£3.09B0.969,398News Coverage
Gap Up
TBCG
TBC Bank Group
N/AGBX 3,746.20
+4.9%
N/A+39.6%£2.13B£2.74B1.7010,267Gap Up
BOCH
Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public
N/AN/AGBX 595
+∞
N/A£1.66B£1.07B2,678.572,847High Trading Volume
PTSB
Permanent TSB Group
N/AGBX 1.49
+6.8%
N/A-4.6%£874.07M£104.62B8.253,330Gap Up
MTRO
Metro Bank
N/AGBX 86.10
+6.2%
N/A+189.2%£588.71M£752.96M-24.074,286
CBG
Close Brothers Group
3.5138 of 5 stars
GBX 281.60
+4.5%
GBX 550
+95.3%
-34.8%£424.26M£1.30B4.244,000Positive News
High Trading Volume
ARBB
Arbuthnot Banking Group
N/AGBX 931
+11.2%
N/A-11.7%£150.69M£239.83M4.93799Gap Up
STB
Secure Trust Bank
4.3855 of 5 stars
GBX 532
flat
GBX 1,420
+166.9%
-17.3%£101.32M£361.02M3.94879Gap Up
CBKD
Commercial International Bank (Egypt) S.A.E.
N/AGBX 1.44
+0.8%
N/A-9.8%£42.40M£91.36B5.557,917

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This page (LON:NBS) was last updated on 4/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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