LSEG vs. BNC, LLOY, BARC, NWG, PRU, STAN, LGEN, AV, HSBA, and AQX
Should you be buying London Stock Exchange Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of London Stock Exchange Group include Banco Santander (BNC), Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY), Barclays (BARC), NatWest Group (NWG), Prudential (PRU), Standard Chartered (STAN), Legal & General Group (LGEN), Aviva (AV), HSBC (HSBA), and Aquis Exchange (AQX). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
London Stock Exchange Group (LON:LSEG) and Banco Santander (LON:BNC) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
London Stock Exchange Group presently has a consensus price target of £101.64, indicating a potential upside of 10.94%. Given London Stock Exchange Group's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe London Stock Exchange Group is more favorable than Banco Santander.
63.0% of London Stock Exchange Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.6% of Banco Santander shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.6% of London Stock Exchange Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Banco Santander shares are owned 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.
London Stock Exchange Group has a beta of 0.33, meaning that its stock price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Banco Santander has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Banco Santander has higher revenue and earnings than London Stock Exchange Group. Banco Santander is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than London Stock Exchange Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Banco Santander received 37 more outperform votes than London Stock Exchange Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 87.67% of users gave London Stock Exchange Group an outperform vote while only 64.74% of users gave Banco Santander an outperform vote.
Banco Santander has a net margin of 24.68% compared to London Stock Exchange Group's net margin of 9.08%. Banco Santander's return on equity of 12.16% beat London Stock Exchange Group's return on equity.
London Stock Exchange Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 115 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Banco Santander pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. London Stock Exchange Group pays out 8,333.3% 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. Banco Santander is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, London Stock Exchange Group had 5 more articles in the media than Banco Santander. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for London Stock Exchange Group and 0 mentions for Banco Santander. London Stock Exchange Group's average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat Banco Santander's score of 0.00 indicating that London Stock Exchange Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
London Stock Exchange Group beats Banco Santander on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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