NTRS vs. CFG, ALLY, EWBC, MTB, BK, AMP, TROW, STT, ARCC, and BEN
Should you be buying Northern Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Northern Trust include Citizens Financial Group (CFG), Ally Financial (ALLY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), M&T Bank (MTB), Bank of New York Mellon (BK), Ameriprise Financial (AMP), T. Rowe Price Group (TROW), State Street (STT), Ares Capital (ARCC), and Franklin Resources (BEN). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Citizens Financial Group (NYSE:CFG) and Northern Trust (NASDAQ:NTRS) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
Citizens Financial Group has a net margin of 11.52% compared to Citizens Financial Group's net margin of 7.59%. Citizens Financial Group's return on equity of 12.57% beat Northern Trust's return on equity.
Citizens Financial Group currently has a consensus target price of $37.73, suggesting a potential upside of 6.92%. Northern Trust has a consensus target price of $84.92, suggesting a potential upside of 0.80%. Given Northern Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Citizens Financial Group is more favorable than Northern Trust.
94.9% of Citizens Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.2% of Northern Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Citizens Financial Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Northern Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Citizens Financial Group has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northern Trust has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Citizens Financial Group received 128 more outperform votes than Northern Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.58% of users gave Citizens Financial Group an outperform vote while only 41.79% of users gave Northern Trust an outperform vote.
Citizens Financial Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Northern Trust. Citizens Financial Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northern Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Northern Trust had 8 more articles in the media than Citizens Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Northern Trust and 4 mentions for Citizens Financial Group. Northern Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.59 beat Citizens Financial Group's score of 1.48 indicating that Citizens Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Citizens Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Northern Trust pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Citizens Financial Group pays out 60.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Northern Trust pays out 66.2% 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. Citizens Financial Group has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Northern Trust has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Citizens Financial Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Citizens Financial Group beats Northern Trust on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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