BCH vs. BAP, BSAC, CIB, WF, BSBR, KB, NWG, BCS, LYG, and REG
Should you be buying Banco de Chile stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Banco de Chile include Credicorp (BAP), Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC), Bancolombia (CIB), Woori Financial Group (WF), Banco Santander (Brasil) (BSBR), KB Financial Group (KB), NatWest Group (NWG), Barclays (BCS), Lloyds Banking Group (LYG), and Regency Centers (REG). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Credicorp (NYSE:BAP) and Banco de Chile (NYSE:BCH) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
Banco de Chile has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Credicorp. Banco de Chile is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Credicorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Credicorp had 3 more articles in the media than Banco de Chile. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Credicorp and 2 mentions for Banco de Chile. Banco de Chile's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Credicorp's score of 0.50 indicating that Credicorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Banco de Chile has a net margin of 29.41% compared to Banco de Chile's net margin of 20.17%. Credicorp's return on equity of 23.65% beat Banco de Chile's return on equity.
Credicorp received 38 more outperform votes than Banco de Chile when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.75% of users gave Credicorp an outperform vote while only 58.37% of users gave Banco de Chile an outperform vote.
Credicorp currently has a consensus target price of $181.73, suggesting a potential upside of 7.87%. Banco de Chile has a consensus target price of $22.00, suggesting a potential downside of 2.09%. Given Banco de Chile's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Credicorp is more favorable than Banco de Chile.
89.8% of Credicorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.2% of Banco de Chile shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.9% of Credicorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of Banco de Chile shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Credicorp pays an annual dividend of $6.77 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Banco de Chile pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Credicorp pays out 43.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Banco de Chile pays out 41.8% 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. Credicorp has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Banco de Chile has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Banco de Chile is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Credicorp has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Banco de Chile has a beta of 0.4, suggesting that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Credicorp beats Banco de Chile on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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