WF vs. BSAC, AVAL, BAP, ITCLY, BSBR, KB, EGP, WBS, GL, and NNN
Should you be buying Woori Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Woori Financial Group include Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC), Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores (AVAL), Credicorp (BAP), Banco Itau Chile Spon (ITCLY), Banco Santander (Brasil) (BSBR), KB Financial Group (KB), EastGroup Properties (EGP), Webster Financial (WBS), Globe Life (GL), and NNN REIT (NNN). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Banco Santander-Chile (NYSE:BSAC) and Woori Financial Group (NYSE:WF) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
6.4% of Banco Santander-Chile shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.8% of Woori Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Banco Santander-Chile currently has a consensus price target of $19.97, indicating a potential downside of 0.17%. Given Woori Financial Group's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Banco Santander-Chile is more favorable than Woori Financial Group.
Banco Santander-Chile pays an annual dividend of $0.57 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Woori Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $1.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Banco Santander-Chile pays out 48.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Woori Financial Group pays out 17.1% 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. Banco Santander-Chile has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Woori Financial Group has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Woori Financial Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
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.
In the previous week, Woori Financial Group had 1 more articles in the media than Banco Santander-Chile. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Woori Financial Group and 2 mentions for Banco Santander-Chile. Banco Santander-Chile's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Woori Financial Group's score of 0.05 indicating that Woori Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Woori Financial Group has a net margin of 10.48% 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.
Banco Santander-Chile has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Woori Financial Group has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
Summary
Woori Financial Group beats Banco Santander-Chile on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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