BAC vs. HSBC, RY, HDB, MUFG, C, UBS, IBN, TD, SMFG, and SAN
Should you be buying Bank of America stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bank of America include HSBC (HSBC), Royal Bank of Canada (RY), HDFC Bank (HDB), Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Citigroup (C), UBS Group (UBS), ICICI Bank (IBN), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), and Banco Santander (SAN). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Bank of America vs.
HSBC (NYSE:HSBC) and Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and community ranking.
Bank of America has a consensus price target of $48.58, suggesting a potential upside of 4.36%. Given Bank of America's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Bank of America is more favorable than HSBC.
HSBC has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bank of America has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Bank of America has lower revenue, but higher earnings than HSBC. HSBC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bank of America, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bank of America received 1140 more outperform votes than HSBC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.16% of users gave Bank of America an outperform vote while only 58.91% of users gave HSBC an outperform vote.
1.5% of HSBC shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.7% of Bank of America shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of HSBC shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Bank of America shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Bank of America had 117 more articles in the media than HSBC. MarketBeat recorded 141 mentions for Bank of America and 24 mentions for HSBC. Bank of America's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat HSBC's score of 0.60 indicating that Bank of America is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
HSBC pays an annual dividend of $1.98 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Bank of America pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. HSBC pays out 32.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bank of America 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. Bank of America has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years.
HSBC has a net margin of 15.70% compared to Bank of America's net margin of 12.48%. HSBC's return on equity of 10.71% beat Bank of America's return on equity.
Summary
Bank of America beats HSBC on 16 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:BAC) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
