BCS vs. HSBC, RY, HDB, MUFG, C, UBS, IBN, TD, SMFG, and SAN
Should you be buying Barclays stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barclays 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.
Barclays vs.
Barclays (NYSE:BCS) and HSBC (NYSE:HSBC) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings, profitability and community ranking.
Barclays has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HSBC has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Barclays had 9 more articles in the media than HSBC. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Barclays and 23 mentions for HSBC. HSBC's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Barclays' score of 0.46 indicating that HSBC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Barclays received 512 more outperform votes than HSBC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.17% of users gave Barclays an outperform vote while only 58.91% of users gave HSBC an outperform vote.
3.4% of Barclays shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.5% of HSBC shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Barclays shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of HSBC shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Barclays pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. HSBC pays an annual dividend of $1.98 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Barclays pays out 20.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HSBC pays out 32.7% 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.
Barclays has a net margin of 17.83% compared to HSBC's net margin of 15.70%. HSBC's return on equity of 10.71% beat Barclays' return on equity.
HSBC has higher revenue and earnings than Barclays. HSBC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Barclays, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Barclays beats HSBC on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:BCS) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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