LYG vs. HSBC, HDB, RY, MUFG, C, IBN, TD, SAN, UBS, and SMFG
Should you be buying Lloyds Banking Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lloyds Banking Group 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.
Lloyds Banking Group vs.
HSBC (NYSE:HSBC) and Lloyds Banking Group (NYSE:LYG) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment and profitability.
HSBC pays an annual dividend of $7.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.7%. Lloyds Banking Group pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. 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. Lloyds Banking Group pays out 60.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
HSBC has a beta of 0.4, indicating that its share price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lloyds Banking Group has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, HSBC had 34 more articles in the media than Lloyds Banking Group. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for HSBC and 6 mentions for Lloyds Banking Group. Lloyds Banking Group's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat HSBC's score of 0.79 indicating that Lloyds Banking Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
HSBC received 28 more outperform votes than Lloyds Banking Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.18% of users gave Lloyds Banking Group an outperform vote while only 58.29% of users gave HSBC an outperform vote.
1.5% of HSBC shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.2% of Lloyds Banking Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of HSBC shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Lloyds Banking Group 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.
HSBC has a net margin of 16.17% compared to Lloyds Banking Group's net margin of 11.45%. HSBC's return on equity of 12.20% beat Lloyds Banking Group's return on equity.
Lloyds Banking Group has a consensus target price of $2.75, indicating a potential downside of 27.25%. Given Lloyds Banking Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Lloyds Banking Group is more favorable than HSBC.
HSBC has higher revenue and earnings than Lloyds Banking Group. HSBC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lloyds Banking Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
HSBC beats Lloyds Banking Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:LYG) was last updated on 4/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
