NU (NU) Competitors

NU (NYSE:NU) and HSBC (NYSE:HSBC) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and profitability.

Which has higher valuation and earnings, NU or HSBC?

HSBC has higher revenue and earnings than NU. HSBC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NU, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
NU	$8.27B	6.21	$1.03B	$0.40	26.94
HSBC	$141.75B	1.42	$23.53B	$6.20	9.04

Is NU or HSBC a better dividend stock?

NU pays an annual dividend of $1.67 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.5%. HSBC pays an annual dividend of $1.98 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. NU pays out 417.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. HSBC pays out 31.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Is NU or HSBC more profitable?

NU has a net margin of 16.28% compared to HSBC's net margin of 16.17%. NU's return on equity of 28.70% beat HSBC's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
NU	16.28%	28.70%	4.41%
HSBC	16.17%	12.14%	0.79%

Do insiders & institutionals believe in NU or HSBC?

84.0% of NU shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.5% of HSBC shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of NU shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of HSBC shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Do analysts rate NU or HSBC?

NU currently has a consensus price target of $15.80, suggesting a potential upside of 46.64%. Given NU's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe NU is more favorable than HSBC.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
NU	1 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.40
HSBC	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67

Which has more risk and volatility, NU or HSBC?

NU has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HSBC has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media refer more to NU or HSBC?

In the previous week, NU had 6 more articles in the media than HSBC. MarketBeat recorded 52 mentions for NU and 46 mentions for HSBC. HSBC's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat NU's score of 0.52 indicating that HSBC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
NU	23 Very Positive mention(s)	10 Positive mention(s)	7 Neutral mention(s)	9 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
HSBC	17 Very Positive mention(s)	6 Positive mention(s)	10 Neutral mention(s)	10 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community favor NU or HSBC?

HSBC received 886 more outperform votes than NU when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.59% of users gave HSBC an outperform vote while only 53.85% of users gave NU an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
NU	Outperform Votes 35 53.85%	Underperform Votes 30 46.15%
HSBC	Outperform Votes 921 58.59%	Underperform Votes 651 41.41%

Summary

NU beats HSBC on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.