MFG vs. TFC, COF, PNC, USB, HBAN, RF, SHG, KEY, C, and MET
Should you be buying Mizuho Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mizuho Financial Group include Truist Financial (TFC), Capital One Financial (COF), The PNC Financial Services Group (PNC), U.S. Bancorp (USB), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), Shinhan Financial Group (SHG), KeyCorp (KEY), Citigroup (C), and MetLife (MET). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Truist Financial (NYSE:TFC) and Mizuho Financial Group (NYSE:MFG) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability and valuation.
Mizuho Financial Group has higher revenue and earnings than Truist Financial. Truist Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mizuho Financial Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Mizuho Financial Group has a net margin of 8.48% compared to Mizuho Financial Group's net margin of -4.28%. Mizuho Financial Group's return on equity of 9.15% beat Truist Financial's return on equity.
Truist Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Mizuho Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Truist Financial pays out -157.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Mizuho Financial Group pays out 27.8% 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. Truist Financial has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years. Truist Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Truist Financial had 12 more articles in the media than Mizuho Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Truist Financial and 4 mentions for Mizuho Financial Group. Truist Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.31 beat Mizuho Financial Group's score of 0.11 indicating that Mizuho Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Truist Financial has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mizuho Financial Group has a beta of 0.43, meaning that its share price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Truist Financial received 506 more outperform votes than Mizuho Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.63% of users gave Mizuho Financial Group an outperform vote while only 55.51% of users gave Truist Financial an outperform vote.
71.3% of Truist Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.3% of Mizuho Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Truist Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Mizuho Financial Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Truist Financial currently has a consensus target price of $43.17, suggesting a potential upside of 8.01%. Given Mizuho Financial Group's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Truist Financial is more favorable than Mizuho Financial Group.
Summary
Truist Financial beats Mizuho Financial Group on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding MFG and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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