STAN vs. BNC, BARC, CABP, HSBA, LSEG, OMU, LLOY, NWG, PRU, and AIBG
Should you be buying Standard Chartered stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Standard Chartered include Banco Santander (BNC), Barclays (BARC), CAB Payments (CABP), HSBC (HSBA), London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), Old Mutual (OMU), Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY), NatWest Group (NWG), Prudential (PRU), and AIB Group (AIBG). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Standard Chartered vs.
Banco Santander (LON:BNC) and Standard Chartered (LON:STAN) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk and community ranking.
Standard Chartered has a consensus price target of GBX 1,055, suggesting a potential downside of 10.82%. Given Standard Chartered's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Standard Chartered is more favorable than Banco Santander.
Banco Santander has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Standard Chartered has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Banco Santander has higher revenue and earnings than Standard Chartered. Banco Santander is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Standard Chartered, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Standard Chartered received 752 more outperform votes than Banco Santander when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.74% of users gave Banco Santander an outperform vote while only 58.83% of users gave Standard Chartered an outperform vote.
32.0% of Banco Santander shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.7% of Standard Chartered shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Banco Santander shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Standard Chartered shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Standard Chartered had 12 more articles in the media than Banco Santander. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Standard Chartered and 1 mentions for Banco Santander. Banco Santander's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Standard Chartered's score of 0.41 indicating that Banco Santander is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Banco Santander pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Standard Chartered pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Banco Santander pays out 26.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Standard Chartered pays out 20.7% 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.
Standard Chartered has a net margin of 24.04% compared to Banco Santander's net margin of 20.05%. Banco Santander's return on equity of 12.99% beat Standard Chartered's return on equity.
Summary
Standard Chartered beats Banco Santander on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:STAN) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
