TD vs. HDB, IBN, SAN, SMFG, MUFG, BMO, BBVA, ING, RY, and CM
Should you be buying Toronto-Dominion Bank stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Toronto-Dominion Bank include HDFC Bank (HDB), ICICI Bank (IBN), Banco Santander (SAN), Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Bank of Montreal (BMO), Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), ING Groep (ING), Royal Bank of Canada (RY), and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM). These companies are all part of the "commercial banks, not elsewhere classified" industry.
HDFC Bank (NYSE:HDB) and Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE:TD) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.
Toronto-Dominion Bank received 97 more outperform votes than HDFC Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.13% of users gave HDFC Bank an outperform vote while only 54.95% of users gave Toronto-Dominion Bank an outperform vote.
HDFC Bank pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Toronto-Dominion Bank pays an annual dividend of $3.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. HDFC Bank pays out 18.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Toronto-Dominion Bank pays out 64.5% 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. HDFC Bank has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Toronto-Dominion Bank has raised its dividend for 10 consecutive years. Toronto-Dominion Bank is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Toronto-Dominion Bank has higher revenue and earnings than HDFC Bank. Toronto-Dominion Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HDFC Bank, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
HDFC Bank has a net margin of 15.71% compared to HDFC Bank's net margin of 11.16%. Toronto-Dominion Bank's return on equity of 15.45% beat HDFC Bank's return on equity.
17.6% of HDFC Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.4% of Toronto-Dominion Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of HDFC Bank shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Toronto-Dominion Bank shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
HDFC Bank has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Toronto-Dominion Bank has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Toronto-Dominion Bank had 7 more articles in the media than HDFC Bank. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Toronto-Dominion Bank and 13 mentions for HDFC Bank. HDFC Bank's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Toronto-Dominion Bank's score of 0.62 indicating that Toronto-Dominion Bank is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Toronto-Dominion Bank has a consensus target price of $89.33, suggesting a potential upside of 56.07%. Given HDFC Bank's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Toronto-Dominion Bank is more favorable than HDFC Bank.
Summary
HDFC Bank and Toronto-Dominion Bank tied by winning 11 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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