BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/ vs ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, two Banks—Regional stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Bank of America is the American deposit machine, scale as strategy; Royal Bank of Canada is the oligopolist, five-bank cartel economics as birthright, and the birthright currently earns better: 15% on equity against 10.6%, a 31% net margin against 27.6%. The market pays for the difference, 18.9 times earnings against 14.3, a four-and-a-half-turn premium for the concentrated market over the competitive one. Returns on assets nearly tie at 0.9%. BofA shows the visible 1.9% dividend. The pair prices market structure itself: Canadian banking's protected returns at a protected price, American banking's contested returns at a contested one.
Comparison updated 2026-07-10.
| Metric | BAC | RY |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $57.81 | $202.84 |
| Market cap | $428.8B | $283.7B |
| Sector | Financial Services | Financial Services |
| Stage | Mature | Growth |
| P/E | 14.3 | 18.9 |
| P/B | 1.43 | 2.76 |
| P/S | 3.72 | 5.69 |
| EV/EBITDA | 1247.5 | 113.4 |
| Revenue growth | +6.4% | +12.1% |
| Net margin | 27.6% | 31.0% |
| Return on equity | 10.6% | 15.0% |
| Return on assets | 0.9% | 0.9% |
| Dividend yield | 1.9% | — |
| Debt / equity | 1.08 | 0.00 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 9 / 9 |
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