ITUB vs. HSBC, MUFG, RY, HDB, C, UBS, IBN, TD, SAN, and SMFG
Should you be buying Itaú Unibanco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Itaú Unibanco include HSBC (HSBC), Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Royal Bank of Canada (RY), HDFC Bank (HDB), Citigroup (C), UBS Group (UBS), ICICI Bank (IBN), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), Banco Santander (SAN), and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Itaú Unibanco vs.
HSBC (NYSE:HSBC) and Itaú Unibanco (NYSE:ITUB) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.
HSBC has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Itaú Unibanco. Itaú Unibanco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HSBC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
1.5% of HSBC shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of HSBC shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Itaú Unibanco shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, HSBC had 31 more articles in the media than Itaú Unibanco. MarketBeat recorded 39 mentions for HSBC and 8 mentions for Itaú Unibanco. Itaú Unibanco's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat HSBC's score of 0.56 indicating that Itaú Unibanco is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Itaú Unibanco has a consensus target price of $6.27, indicating a potential upside of 10.24%. Given Itaú Unibanco's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Itaú Unibanco is more favorable than HSBC.
HSBC pays an annual dividend of $7.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.3%. Itaú Unibanco pays an annual dividend of $0.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. 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. Itaú Unibanco pays out 2.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
HSBC has a beta of 0.51, meaning that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Itaú Unibanco has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
HSBC received 507 more outperform votes than Itaú Unibanco when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.86% of users gave Itaú Unibanco an outperform vote while only 58.25% of users gave HSBC an outperform vote.
HSBC has a net margin of 16.17% compared to Itaú Unibanco's net margin of 12.25%. Itaú Unibanco's return on equity of 19.46% beat HSBC's return on equity.
Summary
Itaú Unibanco beats HSBC on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:ITUB) was last updated on 3/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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