NWG vs. BCS, LYG, CM, KB, BSBR, BAP, BCH, BSAC, ING, and BBVA
Should you be buying NatWest Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NatWest Group include Barclays (BCS), Lloyds Banking Group (LYG), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM), KB Financial Group (KB), Banco Santander (Brasil) (BSBR), Credicorp (BAP), Banco de Chile (BCH), Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC), ING Groep (ING), and Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA). These companies are all part of the "commercial banks, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Barclays (NYSE:BCS) and NatWest Group (NYSE:NWG) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
3.4% of Barclays shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.3% of NatWest Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Barclays 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.
Barclays has a net margin of 17.21% compared to Barclays' net margin of 0.00%. NatWest Group's return on equity of 6.13% beat Barclays' return on equity.
Barclays received 1294 more outperform votes than NatWest Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.13% of users gave Barclays an outperform vote while only 39.22% of users gave NatWest Group an outperform vote.
Barclays has higher revenue and earnings than NatWest Group.
Barclays pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. NatWest Group pays an annual dividend of $0.57 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. Barclays pays out 38.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Barclays has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and NatWest Group has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Barclays had 8 more articles in the media than NatWest Group. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Barclays and 4 mentions for NatWest Group. NatWest Group's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Barclays' score of 0.42 indicating that Barclays is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Barclays has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NatWest Group has a beta of 1.37, meaning that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Barclays beats NatWest Group on 14 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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