This is the second in a series of articles in which I assess the largest mega-cap financials stocks, from Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A) (BRK.B) to Royal Bank of Canada (RY).
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Is there good value to be realized in the mega-cap financials space? And which financials stocks seem to be a better buy relative to their peers?
Sizing up the big players in financials
The table below compares several metrics, from valuation to fundamentals, across the top 10 financials companies by market cap: 2016 P/E, 2016 PEG and cash-adjusted PEG, price-to-book, next-year EPS growth, net cash as a percentage of market cap, trailing ROE, dividend yield and "distance" from 52-week highs (as I have gathered evidence that buying stocks on weakness may be a good value-based strategy).
