AXP vs. COF, DFS, SLM, CACC, NNI, ECPG, PRAA, EZPW, WRLD, and GDOT
Should you be buying American Express stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Express include Capital One Financial (COF), Discover Financial Services (DFS), SLM (SLM), Credit Acceptance (CACC), Nelnet (NNI), Encore Capital Group (ECPG), PRA Group (PRAA), EZCORP (EZPW), World Acceptance (WRLD), and Green Dot (GDOT). These companies are all part of the "consumer finance" industry.
American Express vs.
American Express (NYSE:AXP) and Capital One Financial (NYSE:COF) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.
American Express has a net margin of 15.36% compared to Capital One Financial's net margin of 9.46%. American Express' return on equity of 32.65% beat Capital One Financial's return on equity.
84.3% of American Express shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of Capital One Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of American Express shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Capital One Financial 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.
In the previous week, American Express had 26 more articles in the media than Capital One Financial. MarketBeat recorded 71 mentions for American Express and 45 mentions for Capital One Financial. American Express' average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Capital One Financial's score of 0.82 indicating that American Express is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Capital One Financial received 88 more outperform votes than American Express when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.62% of users gave Capital One Financial an outperform vote while only 59.82% of users gave American Express an outperform vote.
American Express currently has a consensus target price of $302.57, suggesting a potential upside of 8.84%. Capital One Financial has a consensus target price of $206.53, suggesting a potential upside of 13.92%. Given Capital One Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Capital One Financial is more favorable than American Express.
American Express pays an annual dividend of $3.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Capital One Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. American Express pays out 23.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Capital One Financial 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. Capital One Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
American Express has higher revenue and earnings than Capital One Financial. Capital One Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Express, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
American Express has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Capital One Financial has a beta of 1.47, meaning that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Capital One Financial beats American Express on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:AXP) was last updated on 3/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
