FLG vs. KB, BBDO, CFG, BSBR, SOFI, SHG, BAP, BCH, ALLY, and BSAC
Should you be buying Flagstar Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flagstar Financial include KB Financial Group (KB), Banco Bradesco (BBDO), Citizens Financial Group (CFG), Banco Santander (Brasil) (BSBR), SoFi Technologies (SOFI), Shinhan Financial Group (SHG), Credicorp (BAP), Banco de Chile (BCH), Ally Financial (ALLY), and Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Flagstar Financial vs.
KB Financial Group (NYSE:KB) and Flagstar Financial (NYSE:FLG) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, community ranking and risk.
11.5% of KB Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.9% of Flagstar Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 69.0% of KB Financial Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.4% of Flagstar Financial shares are held 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.
KB Financial Group has higher revenue and earnings than Flagstar Financial. Flagstar Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than KB Financial Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Flagstar Financial has a consensus target price of $12.90, indicating a potential upside of 6.17%. Given Flagstar Financial's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Flagstar Financial is more favorable than KB Financial Group.
KB Financial Group has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flagstar Financial has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
KB Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $1.81 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Flagstar Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. KB Financial Group pays out 21.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Flagstar Financial pays out -1.1% 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.
In the previous week, KB Financial Group had 2 more articles in the media than Flagstar Financial. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for KB Financial Group and 2 mentions for Flagstar Financial. Flagstar Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.56 beat KB Financial Group's score of 1.31 indicating that Flagstar Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
KB Financial Group received 262 more outperform votes than Flagstar Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.97% of users gave KB Financial Group an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave Flagstar Financial an outperform vote.
KB Financial Group has a net margin of 12.33% compared to Flagstar Financial's net margin of -17.16%. KB Financial Group's return on equity of 7.71% beat Flagstar Financial's return on equity.
Summary
KB Financial Group beats Flagstar Financial on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:FLG) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
