MUFG vs. RY, HDB, TD, IBN, SAN, SMFG, BMO, BBVA, ING, and CM
Should you be buying Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group include Royal Bank of Canada (RY), HDFC Bank (HDB), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), ICICI Bank (IBN), Banco Santander (SAN), Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), Bank of Montreal (BMO), Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), ING Groep (ING), and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM). These companies are all part of the "commercial banks, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE:RY) and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (NYSE:MUFG) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings and dividends.
Royal Bank of Canada has higher revenue and earnings than Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Royal Bank of Canada, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Royal Bank of Canada pays an annual dividend of $2.01 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Royal Bank of Canada pays out 25.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group pays out 17.7% 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. Royal Bank of Canada has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has a net margin of 19.14% compared to Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group's net margin of 12.43%. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group's return on equity of 14.74% beat Royal Bank of Canada's return on equity.
45.3% of Royal Bank of Canada shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.6% of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Royal Bank of Canada currently has a consensus target price of $137.67, indicating a potential upside of 35.61%. Given Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Royal Bank of Canada is more favorable than Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group.
Royal Bank of Canada has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Royal Bank of Canada had 2 more articles in the media than Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Royal Bank of Canada and 5 mentions for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 1.29 beat Royal Bank of Canada's score of 1.05 indicating that Royal Bank of Canada is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Royal Bank of Canada received 510 more outperform votes than Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.36% of users gave Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group an outperform vote while only 55.77% of users gave Royal Bank of Canada an outperform vote.
Summary
Royal Bank of Canada beats Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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