NBS vs. BOCH, CBG, TBCG, BGEO, VMUK, AJB, ASHM, BHMG, BNKR, and ASL
Should you be buying Nationwide Building Society stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nationwide Building Society include Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public (BOCH), Close Brothers Group (CBG), TBC Bank Group (TBCG), Bank of Georgia Group (BGEO), Virgin Money UK (VMUK), AJ Bell (AJB), Ashmore Group (ASHM), BH Macro GBP (BHMG), Bankers (BNKR), and Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust (ASL). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public (LON:BOCH) and Nationwide Building Society (LON:NBS) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, profitability, earnings, community ranking, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Nationwide Building Society had 3 more articles in the media than Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Nationwide Building Society and 0 mentions for Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public. Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public's average media sentiment score of 0.08 beat Nationwide Building Society's score of 0.00 indicating that Nationwide Building Society is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
39.1% of Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 138.0% of Nationwide Building Society shares are held by institutional investors. 22.5% of Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Nationwide Building Society has higher revenue and earnings than Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public. Nationwide Building Society is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public received 26 more outperform votes than Nationwide Building Society when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.07% of users gave Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public an outperform vote while only 72.41% of users gave Nationwide Building Society an outperform vote.
Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public has a net margin of 47.91% compared to Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public's net margin of 33.58%. Nationwide Building Society's return on equity of 21.55% beat Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public's return on equity.
Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nationwide Building Society has a beta of 0.29, indicating that its share price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Bank of Cyprus Holdings Public beats Nationwide Building Society on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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