SAN vs. MUFG, HDB, TD, IBN, SMFG, BMO, BBVA, ING, CM, and LYG
Should you be buying Banco Santander stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Banco Santander include Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), HDFC Bank (HDB), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), ICICI Bank (IBN), Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), Bank of Montreal (BMO), Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), ING Groep (ING), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM), and Lloyds Banking Group (LYG). These companies are all part of the "commercial banks, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Banco Santander (NYSE:SAN) and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (NYSE:MUFG) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.
In the previous week, Banco Santander had 3 more articles in the media than Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Banco Santander and 2 mentions for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 1.74 beat Banco Santander's score of 0.57 indicating that Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Banco Santander has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. Banco Santander is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Banco Santander pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Banco Santander pays out 19.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group pays out 25.3% 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. Banco Santander is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Banco Santander has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
9.2% of Banco Santander shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.6% of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. 9.5% of Banco Santander shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group shares are held by company 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.
Banco Santander received 382 more outperform votes than Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.36% of users gave Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group an outperform vote while only 49.69% of users gave Banco Santander an outperform vote.
Banco Santander has a net margin of 14.98% compared to Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group's net margin of 12.68%. Banco Santander's return on equity of 10.95% beat Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group's return on equity.
Summary
Banco Santander beats Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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