UBS Group AG vs WELLS FARGO & COMPANY/MN, two Banks—Regional stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
UBS is wealth management wearing a bank charter, its economics mid-integration; Wells Fargo is American retail banking fully repaired, and the current tables are one-sided: Wells earns 12% on equity against 8.6%, 0.98% on assets against 0.48%, a 25.5% net margin against 15.7%, and pays a visible 2% dividend. The market prices UBS seven turns dearer anyway, 20 times against 13, buying the finished wealth giant it expects rather than the transitional one it has. The pair prices two afterlives, post-scandal and post-acquisition; the post-scandal one is delivering first and charging less, which is the entire relative-value case in one sentence.
Comparison updated 2026-07-10.
| Metric | UBS | WFC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $49.12 | $83.88 |
| Market cap | $154.8B | $261.5B |
| Sector | Financial Services | Financial Services |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| P/E | 20.0 | 13.0 |
| P/B | 1.71 | 1.45 |
| P/S | 3.12 | 3.08 |
| Revenue growth | +9.2% | +4.2% |
| Net margin | 15.7% | 25.5% |
| Return on equity | 8.6% | 12.0% |
| Return on assets | 0.5% | 1.0% |
| Dividend yield | — | 2.0% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 1.20 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 9 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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