STAN vs. BNC, BARC, CABP, HSBA, LSEG, LLOY, NWG, PRU, LGEN, and AV
Should you be buying Standard Chartered stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Standard Chartered include Banco Santander (BNC), Barclays (BARC), CAB Payments (CABP), HSBC (HSBA), 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.
Standard Chartered (LON:STAN) and Banco Santander (LON:BNC) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and valuation.
Standard Chartered pays an annual dividend of GBX 22 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Banco Santander pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Standard Chartered pays out 2,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Banco Santander pays out 2,631.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Standard Chartered has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Banco Santander has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Standard Chartered currently has a consensus price target of GBX 951.33, indicating a potential upside of 22.37%. Given Standard Chartered's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Standard Chartered is more favorable than Banco Santander.
Standard Chartered received 750 more outperform votes than Banco Santander when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.74% of users gave Banco Santander an outperform vote while only 58.85% of users gave Standard Chartered an outperform vote.
73.0% of Standard Chartered shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.2% of Banco Santander shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Standard Chartered shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Banco Santander shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Banco Santander has higher revenue and earnings than Standard Chartered. Banco Santander is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Standard Chartered, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Standard Chartered had 3 more articles in the media than Banco Santander. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Standard Chartered and 0 mentions for Banco Santander. Standard Chartered's average media sentiment score of 0.24 beat Banco Santander's score of -0.09 indicating that Standard Chartered is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Banco Santander has a net margin of 24.68% compared to Standard Chartered's net margin of 20.70%. Banco Santander's return on equity of 12.16% beat Standard Chartered's return on equity.
Summary
Standard Chartered beats Banco Santander on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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