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Charles Schwab (SCHW) Competitors

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SCHW vs. HOOD, IBKR, LPLA, TW, BAC, GME, GS, JPM, MS, and RJF

Should you be buying Charles Schwab stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Charles Schwab include Robinhood Markets (HOOD), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), LPL Financial (LPLA), Tradeweb Markets (TW), Bank of America (BAC), GameStop (GME), The Goldman Sachs Group (GS), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Morgan Stanley (MS), and Raymond James Financial (RJF).

Charles Schwab vs. Its Competitors

Charles Schwab (NYSE:SCHW) and Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ:HOOD) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.

Robinhood Markets has a net margin of 48.77% compared to Charles Schwab's net margin of 31.71%. Charles Schwab's return on equity of 18.31% beat Robinhood Markets' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Charles Schwab31.71% 18.31% 1.50%
Robinhood Markets 48.77%15.42%3.37%

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Charles Schwab$19.61B8.58$5.94B$3.3028.07
Robinhood Markets$2.95B28.04$1.41B$1.7653.10

84.4% of Charles Schwab shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.3% of Robinhood Markets shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.3% of Charles Schwab shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 20.0% of Robinhood Markets shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Charles Schwab currently has a consensus price target of $89.55, indicating a potential downside of 3.31%. Robinhood Markets has a consensus price target of $72.71, indicating a potential downside of 22.21%. Given Charles Schwab's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Charles Schwab is more favorable than Robinhood Markets.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Charles Schwab
2 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
15 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.68
Robinhood Markets
1 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
12 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.58

In the previous week, Robinhood Markets had 62 more articles in the media than Charles Schwab. MarketBeat recorded 105 mentions for Robinhood Markets and 43 mentions for Charles Schwab. Charles Schwab's average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Robinhood Markets' score of 0.68 indicating that Charles Schwab is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Charles Schwab
35 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Robinhood Markets
38 Very Positive mention(s)
26 Positive mention(s)
24 Neutral mention(s)
7 Negative mention(s)
4 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Charles Schwab has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Robinhood Markets has a beta of 2.36, indicating that its share price is 136% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Charles Schwab and Robinhood Markets tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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SCHW vs. The Competition

MetricCharles SchwabFIN IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$166.22B$96.83B$12.05B$20.71B
Dividend Yield1.18%1.88%5.53%3.72%
P/E Ratio28.0717.8519.9527.80
Price / Sales8.585.9025.7838.58
Price / Cash18.7723.4518.7218.22
Price / Book4.213.722.254.59
Net Income$5.94B$6.24B$990.08M$982.91M
7 Day Performance1.49%1.70%1.38%1.73%
1 Month Performance4.95%6.60%3.40%4.26%
1 Year Performance26.53%45.88%542.06%14.35%

Charles Schwab Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SCHW
Charles Schwab
4.5879 of 5 stars
$92.62
+1.2%
$89.55
-3.3%
+24.6%$166.22B$19.61B28.0732,100Positive News
Analyst Forecast
HOOD
Robinhood Markets
3.3516 of 5 stars
$93.24
+12.3%
$62.29
-33.2%
+315.0%$82.56B$2.95B52.982,400Trending News
Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
IBKR
Interactive Brokers Group
3.4266 of 5 stars
$55.02
+2.0%
$53.38
-3.0%
+87.0%$93.01B$5.19B29.782,820Analyst Forecast
LPLA
LPL Financial
4.386 of 5 stars
$372.28
+2.0%
$387.69
+4.1%
+39.2%$29.77B$12.39B25.766,900
TW
Tradeweb Markets
3.5455 of 5 stars
$145.11
+0.1%
$149.77
+3.2%
+30.1%$34.31B$1.73B59.721,090News Coverage
BAC
Bank of America
4.9188 of 5 stars
$47.14
+0.0%
$47.65
+1.1%
+21.1%$355.05B$103.44B14.03213,000Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Downgrade
GME
GameStop
1.9767 of 5 stars
$24.04
+1.9%
$13.50
-43.8%
-2.3%$10.75B$3.67B52.266,000Analyst Revision
GS
The Goldman Sachs Group
4.8369 of 5 stars
$705.33
+2.1%
$595.67
-15.5%
+56.0%$216.42B$126.85B16.3746,500Trending News
JPM
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
4.8817 of 5 stars
$290.13
+1.1%
$273.15
-5.9%
+44.6%$806.30B$278.91B14.24317,233Trending News
Analyst Forecast
MS
Morgan Stanley
4.6932 of 5 stars
$139.92
-0.5%
$133.62
-4.5%
+45.1%$224.48B$107.29B16.4280,000Trending News
Buyback Announcement
RJF
Raymond James Financial
4.5864 of 5 stars
$152.96
-0.2%
$153.82
+0.6%
+33.8%$30.86B$14.92B14.7222,000Positive News
Analyst Forecast

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This page (NYSE:SCHW) was last updated on 7/7/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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