The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. vs SCHWAB CHARLES CORP, two Financial Services stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Goldman Sachs and Schwab are both financials whose income statements follow very different mixes, trading and advisory at Goldman, client cash and assets at Schwab. Schwab keeps a higher 38% net margin to Goldman's 30%, and earns more on equity, 19% against 15%, though Goldman's far larger balance sheet shows in its thin 0.88% return on assets versus Schwab's 1.9%. Goldman's free-cash yield reads at about minus 13%, a number that for a capital-markets firm reflects trading and financing flows more than weakness, so it is not the clean signal it would be elsewhere. The two price within a whisker on earnings, near 18 times for Goldman and 17 for Schwab, and pay similar dividends, 1.3% and 1.2%. The market is treating two different machines as roughly the same bet.
Comparison updated 2026-06-15.
| Metric | GS | SCHW |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1055.08 | $103.13 |
| Market cap | $325.0B | $180.7B |
| Sector | Financial Services | Financial Services |
| Stage | Mature | Growth |
| P/E | 19.3 | 20.5 |
| P/B | 2.65 | 3.67 |
| P/S | 5.38 | 7.28 |
| EV/EBITDA | 72.1 | — |
| Revenue growth | +11.4% | +21.5% |
| Net margin | 29.9% | 38.0% |
| Return on equity | 14.7% | 19.1% |
| Return on assets | 0.9% | 1.9% |
| Dividend yield | 1.3% | 1.1% |
| Debt / equity | 0.09 | 0.42 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 0.25 | 0.42 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 9 / 9 |
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