BAP vs. BCH, BSAC, WF, BSBR, KB, NWG, BCS, LYG, CM, and DOC
Should you be buying Credicorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Credicorp include Banco de Chile (BCH), Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC), Woori Financial Group (WF), Banco Santander (Brasil) (BSBR), KB Financial Group (KB), NatWest Group (NWG), Barclays (BCS), Lloyds Banking Group (LYG), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM), and Healthpeak Properties (DOC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Credicorp (NYSE:BAP) and Banco de Chile (NYSE:BCH) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, risk, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Credicorp has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Banco de Chile has a beta of 0.4, indicating that its share price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Banco de Chile has a net margin of 28.62% compared to Credicorp's net margin of 20.17%. Banco de Chile's return on equity of 25.45% beat Credicorp's return on equity.
Credicorp pays an annual dividend of $6.77 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Banco de Chile pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. Credicorp pays out 43.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Banco de Chile pays out 41.3% 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 de Chile is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Credicorp currently has a consensus price target of $181.73, indicating a potential upside of 10.28%. Banco de Chile has a consensus price target of $22.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.09%. Given Credicorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Credicorp is more favorable than Banco de Chile.
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.
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.
89.8% of Credicorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.2% of Banco de Chile shares are held by institutional investors. 15.9% of Credicorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of Banco de Chile shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Credicorp had 4 more articles in the media than Banco de Chile. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Credicorp and 3 mentions for Banco de Chile. Credicorp's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Banco de Chile's score of 0.00 indicating that Credicorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Credicorp beats Banco de Chile on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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