HSBC (HSBC) Stock

About HSBC

HSBC is led by CEO Georges Bahjat Elhedery, employs 211,940 people, headquartered in London, GB, publicly traded since 1999.

HSBC stock trades at $103.40 with a market capitalization of $355.36B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 14.67, price-to-book of 1.80, price-to-sales of 2.82. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $63.55 and $107.92, and currently trades 4.2% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 1.93%.

On profitability, HSBC generates a return on equity (ROE) of 12.98%, above the typical market average, return on capital employed of 2.23%, an operating margin of 20.27%, a net profit margin of 20.13%.

In its most recent fiscal year, HSBC reported annual revenue of $134.1B, net profit of $22.3B, revenue has compounded at 11.6% a year over the last five years, profit at 33.6% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.45 — a leveraged balance sheet worth monitoring, a current ratio of 2.62, total assets of $3.23T, $307.7B in cash and equivalents.

HSBC has an average daily trading volume of 1,461,457 shares, a beta of 0.57 (less volatile than the overall market).