BN vs. BMO, EQIX, BBVA, USB, APO, PNC, ING, ICE, SMFG, and WELL
Should you be buying Brookfield stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield include Bank of Montreal (BMO), Equinix (EQIX), Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), U.S. Bancorp (USB), Apollo Global Management (APO), The PNC Financial Services Group (PNC), ING Groep (ING), Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), and Welltower (WELL). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Bank of Montreal (NYSE:BMO) and Brookfield (NYSE:BN) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, dividends, profitability and media sentiment.
Bank of Montreal currently has a consensus target price of $131.00, suggesting a potential upside of 41.62%. Brookfield has a consensus target price of $47.25, suggesting a potential upside of 8.32%. Given Brookfield's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Bank of Montreal is more favorable than Brookfield.
Bank of Montreal has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Brookfield. Bank of Montreal is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookfield, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Brookfield had 5 more articles in the media than Bank of Montreal. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Brookfield and 7 mentions for Bank of Montreal. Bank of Montreal's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Brookfield's score of 0.23 indicating that Brookfield is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bank of Montreal has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookfield has a beta of 1.48, meaning that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
45.8% of Bank of Montreal shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.6% of Brookfield shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Bank of Montreal shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 11.0% of Brookfield shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Bank of Montreal received 514 more outperform votes than Brookfield when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.81% of users gave Brookfield an outperform vote while only 57.19% of users gave Bank of Montreal an outperform vote.
Bank of Montreal has a net margin of 7.40% compared to Bank of Montreal's net margin of 1.18%. Brookfield's return on equity of 11.89% beat Bank of Montreal's return on equity.
Bank of Montreal pays an annual dividend of $2.19 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Brookfield pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Bank of Montreal pays out 41.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brookfield pays out 51.6% 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 Montreal has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Brookfield has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Bank of Montreal is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Bank of Montreal and Brookfield tied by winning 11 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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