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BNY MellonBNYCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Financials›Investment Banks/Brokers

World's largest custodian bank, safekeeping and servicing securities and assets for institutional investors.

Momentum strong 61
Mkt cap
$99.4B
US dollars, full cap
$/day
$553M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
14.7×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
n/a
WACC 7.8%
Hurdle
n/a
no reverse DCF
Official | Implied
A / AA-
agencies · bond market
Next earnings
70 days
15 Jan 2027
Close · USD$147.72
1D+0.2%
1W+0.4%
1M+2.9%
3M-7.3%
6M+13.2%
YTD+28.3%
1Y+37.0%
ATR %2.3%
Beta0.75
52w lowhigh10.9% off high

What BNY Mellon does

World's largest custodian bank, safekeeping and servicing securities and assets for institutional investors.

Charges fees for holding and servicing clients' securities, moving collateral and clearing trades, and earns interest on the cash clients leave with it. Many fees are set on assets held, so they rise when markets rise. Formed by the 2007 merger of Bank of New York and Mellon Financial, it rebranded as BNY in 2024.

Products and services

  • Securities custody/servicing
  • Asset management
  • Markets (clearing/FX/collateral)
  • Wealth management

Customers

  • Asset managers
  • Pension funds
  • Insurance companies
  • Broker-dealers

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Financial services
  • Custody & asset servicing
  • Markets & wealth services

What could go right

  • Assets under custody/administration growth
  • Fee income from markets/collateral services

What could go wrong

  • Fee compression in custody business
  • Interest rate sensitivity of net interest income

Moat: narrow (scale, switching costs, installed base). Custody relationships are deeply embedded in clients' operations and costly/risky to move.

Headquarters: New York, New York, US · Founded: 1784 · Employees: 48,100

Named competitors

BNY Mellon at a glance

Size BNY Mellon (BNY) is a United States Financials company (Investment Banks/Brokers) with a market value of $99.4B, the 125th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $147.72 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 13.2%, against +5.1% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 6th highest of 19 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue fell 1.3% over the last twelve months (peer median +12.0%); the operating margin is 37.4% (peer median 40.2%).

Valuation It trades at 14.7× forward earnings against a peer median of 21.7× (8th cheapest of 19).

Credit BNY Mellon has 51 bonds outstanding ($39.0B), rated A by the agencies and trading like AA- at a weighted spread of 37 bp.

Short interest Short interest is 1.3% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 15 Jan 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

10011012011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026BNY 111Peer median 103
Six months, rebased to 100: BNY Mellon against the median of its 18 peers (local-currency closes).

BNY Mellon financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$40.0B$40.5B$39.7B$33.9B$19.9B
Revenue growth—+2%+17%+70%—
Net income$6.54B$5.55B$4.53B$3.30B$2.57B
Free cash flow$7.14B$5.18B-$782M$4.69B$13.7B
Capital expenditure$2.22B$1.55B$1.47B$1.22B$1.35B
Total debt$89.5B$76.6B$66.8B$66.0B$68.0B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

BNY Mellon competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-20%0%+20%-20%0%+20%ICECMEIBKRBARCHOODDBKDB1MQGSCHW0388NDAQ600030STTGSCBOECOINTW2885BNY6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. BNY Mellon is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

-50%0%+50%50×100×ICECMEIBKRBARCHOODDBKSCHW600030COIN2885BNYRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. BNY Mellon is the large dot.

BNY Mellon competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (BNY vs STT vs JPM vs NTRS)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
BNY Mellon BNY$99.4B+13%-1%37%14.7×n/a
State Street STT$45.0B+11%+2%33%11.1×n/a
JPMorgan Chase JPM$889B+11%+9%42%13.4×n/a
Northern Trust NTRS$31.3B+8%+7%24%13.7×n/a
Citigroup C$200B-5%+5%29%9.8×n/a

How BNY Mellon compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

BNY Mellon against its 18 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureBNYPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+2.9%+1.1%8th highest of 19
6-month return+13.2%+5.1%6th highest of 19
Distance from 52-week high-10.9%-11.9%9th highest of 19
Revenue growth (TTM)-1.3%+12.0%3rd lowest of 19
Operating margin37.4%40.2%9th lowest of 19
Forward P/E14.7×21.7×8th cheapest of 19
Bond spread37 bp83 bptightest of 12

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
BNY Mellon BNYUnited States$99.4B+13%-1%37%14.7×n/an/a
Intercontinental Exchange ICEUnited States$96.3B+11%+14%47%20.1×n/an/a
CME CMEUnited States$109B+9%+9%66%23.6×n/an/a
Interactive Brokers IBKRUnited States$129B-10%+16%87%23.9×n/an/a
Barclays BARC.LUnited Kingdom$75.1B+1%+7%22%8.2×n/an/a
Robinhood Markets HOODUnited States$72.9B+5%+22%44%29.7×n/an/a
Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft DBK.DEGermany$65.0B+15%0%30%9.5×n/an/a
Deutsche Boerse DB1.DEGermany$63.8B+32%+7%41%24.7×n/an/a
Macquarie MQG.AXAustralia$63.5B+5%+5%20%18.1×n/an/a
Charles Schwab SCHWUnited States$158B+3%+12%52%12.2×n/an/a
HKEX 0388.HKHong Kong$62.2B-10%+23%75%24.6×n/an/a
Nasdaq NDAQUnited States$59.4B+21%+12%31%23.4×n/an/a
CITIC Securities 600030.SSChina$56.4B-6%-16%54%10.2×n/an/a
State Street STTUnited States$45.0B+11%+2%33%11.1×n/an/a
Goldman Sachs GSUnited States$250B-8%+12%40%12.0×n/an/a
Cboe Global Markets CBOEUnited States$36.9B+2%+14%36%23.4×n/an/a
Coinbase COINUnited States$35.7B-33%-48%-33%99.3×n/an/a
Tradeweb Markets TWUnited States$29.7B+17%+14%44%27.9×n/an/a
Yuanta Financial Holding Co. Lt 2885.TWTaiwan$28.1B+28%+78%28%14.2×n/an/a

BNY Mellon bonds and credit

BNY Mellon has 51 bonds outstanding with $39.0B face value. The agencies rate it A; its bonds trade like AA-. Weighted yield 4.88%, a spread of 37 bp over government bonds.

Every bond, yield and spread in the cockpit →

Questions

Who are BNY Mellon's main competitors?
Named competitors: State Street (STT), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Northern Trust (NTRS), Citigroup (C). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), CME (CME), Interactive Brokers (IBKR), Barclays (BARC.L), Robinhood Markets (HOOD), Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft (DBK.DE).
Is BNY Mellon expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 14.7× against a peer median of 21.7×, 8th cheapest of 19 in its peer set.
How has BNY Mellon stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +13.2% against +5.1% for the median peer; over one year +37.0%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.