AXP vs. COIN, HSBC, MS, GS, RY, SCHW, WFC, MUFG, PGR, and C
Should you be buying American Express stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Express include Coinbase Global (COIN), HSBC (HSBC), Morgan Stanley (MS), The Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Royal Bank of Canada (RY), Charles Schwab (SCHW), Wells Fargo & Company (WFC), Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Progressive (PGR), and Citigroup (C). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Coinbase Global (NASDAQ:COIN) and American Express (NYSE:AXP) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk and media sentiment.
Coinbase Global has a beta of 3.46, suggesting that its stock price is 246% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Express has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Coinbase Global has a net margin of 33.98% compared to Coinbase Global's net margin of 14.50%. Coinbase Global's return on equity of 32.46% beat American Express' return on equity.
Coinbase Global currently has a consensus target price of $208.72, suggesting a potential upside of 4.80%. American Express has a consensus target price of $210.71, suggesting a potential downside of 12.68%. Given American Express' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Coinbase Global is more favorable than American Express.
68.8% of Coinbase Global shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.3% of American Express shares are owned by institutional investors. 33.2% of Coinbase Global shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of American Express shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Coinbase Global had 19 more articles in the media than American Express. MarketBeat recorded 50 mentions for Coinbase Global and 31 mentions for American Express. Coinbase Global's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat American Express' score of 0.47 indicating that American Express is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
American Express has higher revenue and earnings than Coinbase Global. American Express is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Coinbase Global, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
American Express received 1042 more outperform votes than Coinbase Global when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.40% of users gave American Express an outperform vote while only 42.96% of users gave Coinbase Global an outperform vote.
Summary
American Express beats Coinbase Global on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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