BLK vs. SCHW, GS, MS, IBKR, C, HDB, MUFG, PGR, TD, and CB
Should you be buying BlackRock stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackRock include Charles Schwab (SCHW), The Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Morgan Stanley (MS), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), Citigroup (C), HDFC Bank (HDB), Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Progressive (PGR), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), and Chubb (CB). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Charles Schwab (NYSE:SCHW) and BlackRock (NYSE:BLK) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking and risk.
Charles Schwab pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. BlackRock pays an annual dividend of $20.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Charles Schwab pays out 41.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BlackRock pays out 51.8% 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. Charles Schwab has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years and BlackRock has increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years. BlackRock is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, BlackRock had 12 more articles in the media than Charles Schwab. MarketBeat recorded 54 mentions for BlackRock and 42 mentions for Charles Schwab. BlackRock's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Charles Schwab's score of 0.49 indicating that Charles Schwab is being referred to more favorably in the media.
84.4% of Charles Schwab shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.7% of BlackRock shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.6% of Charles Schwab shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of BlackRock shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Charles Schwab currently has a consensus target price of $74.47, indicating a potential downside of 0.69%. BlackRock has a consensus target price of $845.42, indicating a potential upside of 10.82%. Given Charles Schwab's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe BlackRock is more favorable than Charles Schwab.
BlackRock has a net margin of 32.26% compared to BlackRock's net margin of 26.14%. BlackRock's return on equity of 19.86% beat Charles Schwab's return on equity.
Charles Schwab has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackRock has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
BlackRock has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Charles Schwab. BlackRock is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Charles Schwab, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BlackRock received 248 more outperform votes than Charles Schwab when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.71% of users gave BlackRock an outperform vote while only 63.16% of users gave Charles Schwab an outperform vote.
Summary
BlackRock beats Charles Schwab on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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