BARC vs. HSBA, BNC, STAN, CABP, LSEG, LLOY, NWG, PRU, LGEN, and AV
Should you be buying Barclays stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barclays include HSBC (HSBA), Banco Santander (BNC), Standard Chartered (STAN), CAB Payments (CABP), London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY), NatWest Group (NWG), Prudential (PRU), Legal & General Group (LGEN), and Aviva (AV). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Barclays (LON:BARC) and HSBC (LON:HSBA) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, profitability and dividends.
HSBC has higher revenue and earnings than Barclays. HSBC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Barclays, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Barclays has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HSBC has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Barclays pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. HSBC pays an annual dividend of GBX 49 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. Barclays pays out 3,076.9% 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 5,384.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
52.7% of Barclays shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.8% of HSBC shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Barclays shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of HSBC shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Barclays had 3 more articles in the media than HSBC. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Barclays and 5 mentions for HSBC. HSBC's average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat Barclays' score of -0.01 indicating that HSBC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Barclays currently has a consensus price target of GBX 265, indicating a potential upside of 20.45%. HSBC has a consensus price target of GBX 807.65, indicating a potential upside of 15.98%. Given Barclays' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Barclays is more favorable than HSBC.
HSBC has a net margin of 41.26% compared to Barclays' net margin of 21.70%. HSBC's return on equity of 12.31% beat Barclays' return on equity.
Barclays received 1427 more outperform votes than HSBC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.70% of users gave Barclays an outperform vote while only 50.13% of users gave HSBC an outperform vote.
Summary
Barclays beats HSBC on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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