AXP vs. COIN, HSBC, MS, GS, RY, SCHW, WFC, MUFG, PGR, and C
Should you be buying American Express stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Express include Coinbase Global (COIN), HSBC (HSBC), Morgan Stanley (MS), The Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Royal Bank of Canada (RY), Charles Schwab (SCHW), Wells Fargo & Company (WFC), Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Progressive (PGR), and Citigroup (C). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Coinbase Global (NASDAQ:COIN) and American Express (NYSE:AXP) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, community ranking and institutional ownership.
American Express has higher revenue and earnings than Coinbase Global. American Express is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Coinbase Global, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Coinbase Global had 53 more articles in the media than American Express. MarketBeat recorded 85 mentions for Coinbase Global and 32 mentions for American Express. Coinbase Global's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat American Express' score of 0.54 indicating that American Express is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Coinbase Global currently has a consensus price target of $192.60, indicating a potential downside of 13.73%. American Express has a consensus price target of $210.71, indicating a potential downside of 8.69%. Given Coinbase Global's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe American Express is more favorable than Coinbase Global.
Coinbase Global has a beta of 3.46, suggesting that its share price is 246% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Express has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
68.8% of Coinbase Global shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.3% of American Express shares are owned by institutional investors. 33.2% of Coinbase Global shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of American Express shares are owned by company 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.
American Express received 1043 more outperform votes than Coinbase Global when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.40% of users gave American Express an outperform vote while only 42.91% of users gave Coinbase Global an outperform vote.
Coinbase Global has a net margin of 33.98% compared to Coinbase Global's net margin of 14.50%. Coinbase Global's return on equity of 32.46% beat American Express' return on equity.
Summary
American Express beats Coinbase Global on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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