Stock Companies To Invest In 2022: Banking & Finance Shares

November 16, 2021

Top 5 Stock Companies To Invest In 2022 – Banking & Finance: NYSE & ASX Shares To Buy

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With the increasing competition, and the fluctuating stock market. It’s a bit challenging to decide on which stock companies to invest in, and assurity they won’t drown your money.

Based on the prior research, these are the top 5 stock companies to invest in the year 2022. Within the specific industry of banking and financing only. With NYSE & ASX share to buy and make your investment worth it.

Banking & Finance Companies (NYSE & ASX)	Share Price Gain In 1 Yr	Share Price Gain In 5 Yrs	Gross Dividend Yield	Market Cap
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE)	42.02%	115.23%	2.20%	492 Billion
Bank Of America Corp. (NYSE)	70.63%	138.28%	1.59%	385 Billion
Royal Bank Of Canada (NYSE)	36.20%	65.30%	4.02%	150.7 Billion
Macquarie Group Ltd (ASX)	44.73%	146.95%	2.99%	76.5 Billion
Afterpay (ASX)	13.92%	(Emerging Company)	To Be Announced	33.5 Billion

Stocks To Buy In 2022 (Banking & Finance Sector – NYSE | ASX)

5. Afterpay (ASX)

Afterpay is a payment and transactional platform designed to ease the shopping and repayment model. The system allows one to shop products and pay later in 4 installments absolutely interest-free.

You might wonder, why the 5-year data and dividend are missing. Is there something fishy?

Nope!

Nothing’s fishy.

The company is not quite mature to show enough data.

Must say, with its fastest-growing strategy and beneficial services; Afterpay has become the most favorable business to invest in. It’s beginning from Australia to New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

Within a short period of time, it has acquired an impressive reputation in the market. And so the data for the 5th year cumulative is just about to reveal.

The Company generally serves the retail industry, mobility & payments, and the health sector.

The Company’s touchpoint technology platform includes the transaction integrity engine and the Afterpay operating platform.

As of Nov 2021, the company has a market capitalization of around $33 billion AUD.

Know More: How One Can Start a Company Like Afterpay?

4. Macquarie Group Ltd (ASX)

Macquarie Group Ltd is a global investment banking and financial services company, headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

It was founded in 1969 by prominent Australian businessman Stan Owens.

The company offers a wide array of services including banking & financial services, asset management, capital markets, investment banking. Further, leasing arrangements, commodities & global markets, and wealth management.

Macquarie is worth $A364 billion of transactions in the year 2021 (March).

It is operating services in Australia, New Zealand, America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Through the years Macquarie Group has grown and expanded its business to include areas such as broking, share trading/dealing, foreign exchange dealing, and market-making.

Macquarie is the top-ranked mergers and acquisitions advisor in Australia.

Its subsidiaries provide advisory, financing, and investment services to corporations, governments, and financial institutions on behalf of its customers.

The Company operates through four segments: Corporate & Institutional Banking; Asset Management; Insurance Broking; and Other Investments. Its subsidiaries include Macquarie Capital (Americas), LLC (Macquarie Capital LLC), Macquarie Bank Limited (Macquarie Bank), BT Investment Management Limited, MQ Investor Services Pty Ltd., MQ Life Limited, Macquarie International Infrastructure Fund II B.V., Macquarie Global Infrastructure Fund II B.V., ECM Asset Management Inc., ECM Life USA Inc., EC.

In 2021, Macquarie’s market cap is about 76 billion AUD.

3. Royal Bank Of Canada (NYSE)

Royal Bank Of Canada, or RBC, is one of the largest banks in Canada.

RBC was founded in 1864 and has its headquarters in Toronto, Ontario. The company has over 80,000 employees and more than 16 million customers.

The bank provides a wide range of products to its customers including insurance services. The company also offers financial advice for investments and mortgages. RBC also offers financing to small-medium size enterprises through their wholesale banking division.

RBC is the eighth-largest bank by market capitalization worldwide. They are also one of the most profitable banks in North America with a return on equity of around 17.91% in 2021. And dividend to be 4.02 in the same year.

It serves 10 million clients from 1209 branches across.

Characteristic	Dividend yield
2021	4.02%
2020	4.7%
2019	4.1%
2018	3.7%
2017	3.8%
2016	4.3%
2015	4.1%
2014	3.8%

Royal Bank Of Canada – Dividend Yield

In 2021, the Royal Bank of Canada has a market capitalization of around $150 Billion. Investing in such a growing company is a definite profit.

2. Bank Of America Corp. (NYSE)

The Bank of America Corporation, commonly referred to as Bank of America (BofA) or simply as the bank, is one of the largest banking institutions in the United States and it’s also considered to be one of the Big Four banks in the country.

Bank Of America was founded in July 1998 by a merger between BankAmerica and NationsBank. The bank has two main branches: commercial banking and investment banking.

The commercial banking branch deals with financial needs such as checking and saving accounts; credit cards; mortgages; auto loans; small business loans; consumer loans such as personal loans, student loans, and credit card balance transfers; home equity lines of credit; certificates of deposit accounts.

The investment banking branch deals with securities underwriting services such as corporate finance, mergers, and acquisitions leasing.

By report, in 2018, Bank of America had a $313.5 billion market capitalization. This made it the 13th largest company in the world. And in 2021, the market cap is around 385 billion USD.

1. JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE)

JPMorgan Chase & Co is a diversified financial services company. It provides wholesale banking, retail banking, investment banking, credit card services, and mortgage lending.

The company was formed in 2000 Dec by John Pierpont Morgan.

The bank’s subsidiaries include the Chase Bank, the largest bank in the United States by total assets.

In 2001 it merged with Bank One Corporation to form JPMorgan Chase & Co.

In 2017, JPMorgan became a Dow Jones Industrial Average component after decades of being an American Stock Exchange member.

JPMorgan is the largest bank in the world in terms of market capitalization. And by total assets, it is the 5th largest bank with US$3.684 trillion being controlled.

Generally, it operates in 4 segments:

Consumer & Community Banking

Commercial Banking
Asset Management
Corporate & Investment Bank

The Corporate & Investment Bank segment performs:

Banking and Markets & Investor Services
Market-making, prime brokerage

Offers investment banking
Treasury and securities products and services
Government and municipal entities

Investors
Financial institutions

As of now, JPMorgan Chase & Co. has 492 billion market capitalization, with a yield dividend of about 2.02 in 2021.

A Thought On Companies To Invest In 2022

If you are thinking of investing in the stock and share market. These banking and finance companies are perfect to start with. For now, these companies seem to be the hottest with the risk involved. However, the risk is fluctuating. So when invested smartly, these banking and finance companies would make a fortune for you.