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Standard Chartered (STAN) Competitors

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GBX 1,169 -18.00 (-1.52%)
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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 stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends and institutional ownership.

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Banco Santander20.05% 12.99% 0.73%
Standard Chartered 24.04%8.77%0.41%

Banco Santander pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. 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 consensus price target of GBX 1,073.33, suggesting a potential downside of 9.42%. Given Standard Chartered's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Standard Chartered is more favorable than Banco Santander.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Banco Santander
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Standard Chartered
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

In the previous week, Standard Chartered had 21 more articles in the media than Banco Santander. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Standard Chartered and 3 mentions for Banco Santander. Standard Chartered's average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Banco Santander's score of 0.22 indicating that Standard Chartered is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Banco Santander
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Standard Chartered
6 Very Positive mention(s)
6 Positive mention(s)
9 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
2 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

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 hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

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 58.75% of users gave Standard Chartered an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Banco SantanderOutperform Votes
101
64.74%
Underperform Votes
55
35.26%
Standard CharteredOutperform Votes
853
58.75%
Underperform Votes
599
41.25%

Banco Santander has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Standard Chartered has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its share 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Banco Santander£70.85B1.41£14.20B£63.818.56
Standard Chartered£17.46B2.05£4.20B£111.0510.67

Summary

Standard Chartered beats Banco Santander on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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STAN vs. The Competition

MetricStandard CharteredBanks IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£35.78B£98.16B£4.29B£2.61B
Dividend Yield0.03%3.77%4.19%4.95%
P/E Ratio10.6713.4815.93142.41
Price / Sales2.0577.841,656.30278,803.87
Price / Cash0.060.1749.0727.93
Price / Book0.721.113.374.60
Net Income£4.20B£9.45B£1.28B£5.78B
7 Day Performance-0.83%0.47%0.31%0.37%
1 Month Performance-5.09%2.09%6.54%5.76%
1 Year Performance70.50%50.55%10.66%127.17%

Standard Chartered Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
STAN
Standard Chartered
3.1148 of 5 stars
GBX 1,169
-1.5%
GBX 1,073.33
-8.2%
+70.5%£35.30B£17.46B10.5384,845High Trading Volume
BNC
Banco Santander
N/AGBX 527
+1.3%
N/A+40.9%£96.73B£70.85B8.26206,500News Coverage
BARC
Barclays
1.7091 of 5 stars
GBX 294.85
+0.0%
GBX 311.43
+5.6%
+70.9%£42.34B£24.93B8.6787,400Analyst Forecast
Gap Down
CABP
CAB Payments
2.7852 of 5 stars
GBX 48.60
-0.6%
GBX 99
+103.7%
-49.3%£123.46M£158.86M6.36381
HSBA
HSBC
1.3566 of 5 stars
GBX 878.03
+0.9%
GBX 918.75
+4.6%
+43.0%£196.03B£83.82B8.44219,000Analyst Forecast
LSEG
London Stock Exchange Group
0.7201 of 5 stars
£109.80
-0.4%
GBX 7,871.67
-28.3%
+15.9%£58.12B£8.50B86.1125,608
OMU
Old Mutual
N/AGBX 48.65
+0.1%
N/A+7.8%£47.94B£1.13T18.3429,861
LLOY
Lloyds Banking Group
1.3898 of 5 stars
GBX 69.82
+0.4%
GBX 60.60
-13.2%
+42.1%£42.34B£28.75B8.8359,400Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
NWG
NatWest Group
2.7295 of 5 stars
GBX 448.70
+1.8%
GBX 467.50
+4.2%
+76.6%£35.92B£24.36B8.0661,000Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
PRU
Prudential
2.9775 of 5 stars
GBX 771.40
+2.0%
GBX 1,285
+66.6%
+10.1%£25.38B£10.35B38.5339,900Dividend Increase
AIBG
AIB Group
N/AGBX 562
-1.2%
N/A+36.3%£15.70B£5.27B7.6810,551News Coverage
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This page (LON:STAN) was last updated on 3/27/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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