UBS vs. MFG, VFL, AGMH, AWF, ARL, ASA, BBAR, BBD, BCH, and BMA
Should you be buying UBS Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UBS Group include Mizuho Financial Group (MFG), abrdn National Municipal Income Fund (VFL), AGM Group (AGMH), AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (AWF), American Realty Investors (ARL), ASA Gold and Precious Metals (ASA), Banco BBVA Argentina (BBAR), Banco Bradesco (BBD), Banco de Chile (BCH), and Banco Macro (BMA). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Mizuho Financial Group (NYSE:MFG) and UBS Group (NYSE:UBS) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk and community ranking.
UBS Group has higher revenue and earnings than Mizuho Financial Group. UBS Group 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 beta of 0.43, indicating that its share price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, UBS Group has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
UBS Group received 299 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 56.22% of users gave UBS Group an outperform vote.
UBS Group has a net margin of 39.78% compared to UBS Group's net margin of 8.48%. Mizuho Financial Group's return on equity of 7.78% beat UBS Group's return on equity.
3.3% of Mizuho Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Mizuho Financial Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of UBS Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, UBS Group had 23 more articles in the media than Mizuho Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for UBS Group and 4 mentions for Mizuho Financial Group. UBS Group's average media sentiment score of 0.31 beat Mizuho Financial Group's score of -0.08 indicating that Mizuho Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Mizuho Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. UBS Group pays an annual dividend of $0.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Mizuho Financial Group pays out 27.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. UBS Group pays out 2.5% 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. UBS Group has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years.
Summary
UBS Group beats Mizuho Financial Group on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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