IBN vs. RY, MUFG, HDB, TD, SMFG, SAN, BBVA, BMO, ING, and CM
Should you be buying ICICI Bank stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ICICI Bank include Royal Bank of Canada (RY), Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), HDFC Bank (HDB), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), Banco Santander (SAN), Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), Bank of Montreal (BMO), ING Groep (ING), and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM). These companies are all part of the "commercial banks, not elsewhere classified" industry.
ICICI Bank (NYSE:IBN) and Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE:RY) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings and media sentiment.
ICICI Bank has a net margin of 24.65% compared to Royal Bank of Canada's net margin of 12.43%. ICICI Bank's return on equity of 16.47% beat Royal Bank of Canada's return on equity.
ICICI Bank has a beta of 1, indicating that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Royal Bank of Canada has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
18.2% of ICICI Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.3% of Royal Bank of Canada shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Royal Bank of Canada received 445 more outperform votes than ICICI Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.33% of users gave ICICI Bank an outperform vote while only 55.74% of users gave Royal Bank of Canada an outperform vote.
Royal Bank of Canada has a consensus target price of $137.67, suggesting a potential upside of 28.26%. Given Royal Bank of Canada's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Royal Bank of Canada is more favorable than ICICI Bank.
ICICI Bank pays an annual dividend of $0.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Royal Bank of Canada pays an annual dividend of $4.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. ICICI Bank pays out 12.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Royal Bank of Canada pays out 51.4% 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.
Royal Bank of Canada has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ICICI Bank. Royal Bank of Canada is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ICICI Bank, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Royal Bank of Canada had 8 more articles in the media than ICICI Bank. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Royal Bank of Canada and 6 mentions for ICICI Bank. Royal Bank of Canada's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat ICICI Bank's score of 0.21 indicating that Royal Bank of Canada is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Royal Bank of Canada beats ICICI Bank on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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