ITUB vs. BBDO, BBD, NBN, VFL, AWF, ARL, ASA, BCSF, BBAR, and BMA
Should you be buying Itaú Unibanco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Itaú Unibanco include Banco Bradesco (BBDO), Banco Bradesco (BBD), Northeast Bank (NBN), abrdn National Municipal Income Fund (VFL), AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (AWF), American Realty Investors (ARL), ASA Gold and Precious Metals (ASA), Bain Capital Specialty Finance (BCSF), Banco BBVA Argentina (BBAR), and Banco Macro (BMA). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Banco Bradesco (NYSE:BBDO) and Itaú Unibanco (NYSE:ITUB) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.
Itaú Unibanco received 298 more outperform votes than Banco Bradesco when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.60% of users gave Itaú Unibanco an outperform vote while only 61.79% of users gave Banco Bradesco an outperform vote.
Banco Bradesco pays an annual dividend of $0.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Itaú Unibanco pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Banco Bradesco pays out 14.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Itaú Unibanco pays out 5.9% 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.
Itaú Unibanco has higher revenue and earnings than Banco Bradesco. Itaú Unibanco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Banco Bradesco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Banco Bradesco has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Itaú Unibanco has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Itaú Unibanco has a consensus target price of $7.05, suggesting a potential upside of 11.90%. Given Banco Bradesco's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Itaú Unibanco is more favorable than Banco Bradesco.
Itaú Unibanco has a net margin of 10.48% compared to Itaú Unibanco's net margin of 6.38%. Banco Bradesco's return on equity of 17.76% beat Itaú Unibanco's return on equity.
In the previous week, Banco Bradesco had 1 more articles in the media than Itaú Unibanco. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Banco Bradesco and 2 mentions for Itaú Unibanco. Itaú Unibanco's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Banco Bradesco's score of -0.33 indicating that Banco Bradesco is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Itaú Unibanco beats Banco Bradesco on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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