NWG vs. BNC, LLOY, BARC, RKT, COB, BUR, BCG, TRST, BOY, and DFS
Should you be buying NatWest Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NatWest Group include Banco Santander (BNC), Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY), Barclays (BARC), Reckitt Benckiser Group (RKT), Cobham (COB), Burford Capital (BUR), Baltic Classifieds Group (BCG), Trustpilot Group (TRST), Bodycote (BOY), and DFS Furniture (DFS). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
NatWest Group vs.
Banco Santander (LON:BNC) and NatWest Group (LON:NWG) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, community ranking and media sentiment.
Banco Santander has a net margin of 20.05% compared to NatWest Group's net margin of 18.21%. NatWest Group's return on equity of 13.29% beat Banco Santander's return on equity.
In the previous week, Banco Santander and Banco Santander both had 3 articles in the media. NatWest Group's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Banco Santander's score of 0.29 indicating that NatWest Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Banco Santander has higher revenue and earnings than NatWest Group. NatWest Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Banco Santander, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
32.0% of Banco Santander shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.1% of NatWest Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Banco Santander shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.2% of NatWest Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
NatWest Group has a consensus price target of GBX 477.50, indicating a potential upside of 3.94%. Given NatWest Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe NatWest Group is more favorable than Banco Santander.
Banco Santander has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NatWest Group has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Banco Santander pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. NatWest Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 18 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Banco Santander pays out 26.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NatWest Group pays out 32.3% 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.
NatWest Group received 8 more outperform votes than Banco Santander when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.67% of users gave NatWest Group an outperform vote while only 64.74% of users gave Banco Santander an outperform vote.
Summary
NatWest Group beats Banco Santander on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:NWG) was last updated on 3/29/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff