IBN vs. RY, MUFG, HDB, TD, SMFG, SAN, BBVA, BMO, ING, and CM
Should you be buying ICICI Bank stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ICICI Bank include Royal Bank of Canada (RY), Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), HDFC Bank (HDB), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), Banco Santander (SAN), Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), Bank of Montreal (BMO), ING Groep (ING), and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM). These companies are all part of the "commercial banks, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE:RY) and ICICI Bank (NYSE:IBN) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and earnings.
Royal Bank of Canada has higher revenue and earnings than ICICI Bank. Royal Bank of Canada is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ICICI Bank, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Royal Bank of Canada had 14 more articles in the media than ICICI Bank. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Royal Bank of Canada and 5 mentions for ICICI Bank. ICICI Bank's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Royal Bank of Canada's score of 0.13 indicating that Royal Bank of Canada is being referred to more favorably in the media.
45.3% of Royal Bank of Canada shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.2% of ICICI Bank shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Royal Bank of Canada presently has a consensus price target of $137.67, suggesting a potential upside of 25.99%. Given ICICI Bank's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Royal Bank of Canada is more favorable than ICICI Bank.
Royal Bank of Canada received 446 more outperform votes than ICICI Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.33% of users gave ICICI Bank an outperform vote while only 55.73% of users gave Royal Bank of Canada an outperform vote.
Royal Bank of Canada pays an annual dividend of $4.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. ICICI Bank pays an annual dividend of $0.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Royal Bank of Canada pays out 50.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ICICI Bank pays out 12.2% 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. Royal Bank of Canada has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years and ICICI Bank has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Royal Bank of Canada is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Royal Bank of Canada has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ICICI Bank has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
ICICI Bank has a net margin of 24.65% compared to ICICI Bank's net margin of 12.12%. Royal Bank of Canada's return on equity of 16.47% beat ICICI Bank's return on equity.
Summary
Royal Bank of Canada beats ICICI Bank on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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