BSAC vs. WF, BAP, AVAL, BSBR, KB, SEIC, AIZ, KNSL, FHN, and JLL
Should you be buying Banco Santander-Chile stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Banco Santander-Chile include Woori Financial Group (WF), Credicorp (BAP), Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores (AVAL), Banco Santander (Brasil) (BSBR), KB Financial Group (KB), SEI Investments (SEIC), Assurant (AIZ), Kinsale Capital Group (KNSL), First Horizon (FHN), and Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Woori Financial Group (NYSE:WF) and Banco Santander-Chile (NYSE:BSAC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
Woori Financial Group has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Banco Santander-Chile has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Woori Financial Group received 14 more outperform votes than Banco Santander-Chile when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.42% of users gave Woori Financial Group an outperform vote while only 54.45% of users gave Banco Santander-Chile an outperform vote.
Woori Financial Group has higher revenue and earnings than Banco Santander-Chile. Woori Financial Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Banco Santander-Chile, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Woori Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $4.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.3%. Banco Santander-Chile pays an annual dividend of $0.57 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Woori Financial Group pays out 65.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Banco Santander-Chile pays out 48.7% 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. Woori Financial Group has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Banco Santander-Chile has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Woori Financial Group and Woori Financial Group both had 2 articles in the media. Banco Santander-Chile's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Woori Financial Group's score of 0.61 indicating that Woori Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Banco Santander-Chile has a consensus target price of $19.97, indicating a potential downside of 0.07%. Given Woori Financial Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Banco Santander-Chile is more favorable than Woori Financial Group.
17.8% of Woori Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.4% of Banco Santander-Chile shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Woori Financial Group has a net margin of 10.81% compared to Woori Financial Group's net margin of 9.58%. Woori Financial Group's return on equity of 9.62% beat Banco Santander-Chile's return on equity.
Summary
Woori Financial Group beats Banco Santander-Chile on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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