DFS vs. NWG, DB, SLF, VICI, VTMX, EXR, ACGL, NDAQ, BCS, and OWL
Should you be buying Discover Financial Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Discover Financial Services include NatWest Group (NWG), Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft (DB), Sun Life Financial (SLF), VICI Properties (VICI), Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta (VTMX), Extra Space Storage (EXR), Arch Capital Group (ACGL), Nasdaq (NDAQ), Barclays (BCS), and Blue Owl Capital (OWL). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Discover Financial Services (NYSE:DFS) and NatWest Group (NYSE:NWG) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, media sentiment, earnings and institutional ownership.
86.9% of Discover Financial Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.3% of NatWest Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Discover Financial Services shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Discover Financial Services received 1228 more outperform votes than NatWest Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.76% of users gave Discover Financial Services an outperform vote while only 39.22% of users gave NatWest Group an outperform vote.
Discover Financial Services currently has a consensus price target of $126.29, suggesting a potential downside of 1.10%. Given Discover Financial Services' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Discover Financial Services is more favorable than NatWest Group.
Discover Financial Services has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NatWest Group has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500.
NatWest Group has higher revenue and earnings than Discover Financial Services.
Discover Financial Services has a net margin of 10.56% compared to NatWest Group's net margin of 0.00%. Discover Financial Services' return on equity of 16.74% beat NatWest Group's return on equity.
Discover Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. NatWest Group pays an annual dividend of $0.57 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. Discover Financial Services pays out 31.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, NatWest Group had 2 more articles in the media than Discover Financial Services. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for NatWest Group and 20 mentions for Discover Financial Services. NatWest Group's average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Discover Financial Services' score of 0.38 indicating that NatWest Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Discover Financial Services beats NatWest Group on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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