RY vs. MUFG, HDB, TD, IBN, SAN, SMFG, BMO, BBVA, ING, and CM
Should you be buying Royal Bank of Canada stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Royal Bank of Canada include Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), 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 better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends and risk.
Royal Bank of Canada received 516 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 55.71% of users gave Royal Bank of Canada an outperform vote.
45.3% of Royal Bank of Canada shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.6% of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group shares are owned 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 has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has a net margin of 12.68% compared to Royal Bank of Canada's net margin of 12.43%. Royal Bank of Canada's return on equity of 14.74% beat Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Royal Bank of Canada had 3 more articles in the media than Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Royal Bank of Canada and 10 mentions for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. Royal Bank of Canada's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group's score of 1.03 indicating that Royal Bank of Canada is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Royal Bank of Canada pays an annual dividend of $4.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. 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 51.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group pays out 25.3% 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 currently has a consensus target price of $137.67, indicating a potential upside of 28.91%. Given Royal Bank of Canada's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Royal Bank of Canada is more favorable than Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group.
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.
Summary
Royal Bank of Canada beats Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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