BAC vs. HSBC, HDB, RY, MUFG, C, IBN, TD, SAN, UBS, and SMFG
Should you be buying Bank of America stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bank of America include HSBC (HSBC), HDFC Bank (HDB), Royal Bank of Canada (RY), Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Citigroup (C), ICICI Bank (IBN), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), Banco Santander (SAN), UBS Group (UBS), and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG). 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 superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and media sentiment.
HSBC has a net margin of 16.17% compared to Bank of America's net margin of 14.10%. HSBC's return on equity of 12.20% beat Bank of America's return on equity.
Bank of America has a consensus price target of $48.31, indicating a potential upside of 34.44%. Given Bank of America's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Bank of America is more favorable than HSBC.
HSBC pays an annual dividend of $7.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.4%. Bank of America pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. HSBC pays out 115.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Bank of America pays out 32.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bank of America has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years.
Bank of America has higher revenue and 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 1165 more outperform votes than HSBC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.80% of users gave Bank of America an outperform vote while only 58.27% of users gave HSBC an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Bank of America had 86 more articles in the media than HSBC. MarketBeat recorded 121 mentions for Bank of America and 35 mentions for HSBC. HSBC's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Bank of America's score of 0.60 indicating that HSBC is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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 endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
HSBC has a beta of 0.4, indicating that its share price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bank of America has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Bank of America beats HSBC on 17 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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