AVAL vs. NTB, BLX, WF, BSAC, BNL, NHI, FIBK, GBDC, TCBI, and HIW
Should you be buying Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores include Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son (NTB), Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S. A. (BLX), Woori Financial Group (WF), Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC), Broadstone Net Lease (BNL), National Health Investors (NHI), First Interstate BancSystem (FIBK), Golub Capital BDC (GBDC), Texas Capital Bancshares (TCBI), and Highwoods Properties (HIW). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores (NYSE:AVAL) and Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son (NYSE:NTB) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son has a net margin of 27.95% compared to Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores' net margin of 2.04%. Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son's return on equity of 23.18% beat Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores' return on equity.
In the previous week, Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores had 2 more articles in the media than Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores and 0 mentions for Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son. Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores' average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son's score of 0.00 indicating that Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son received 121 more outperform votes than Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.03% of users gave Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son an outperform vote while only 51.59% of users gave Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores an outperform vote.
0.2% of Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.7% of Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son pays an annual dividend of $1.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores pays out 71.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son pays out 39.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son has a consensus target price of $35.80, suggesting a potential upside of 1.50%. Given Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son is more favorable than Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores.
Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores. Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son beats Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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