BBAR vs. BCH, BMA, CIB, GGAL, SUPV, IFS, SSBI, VFL, AWF, and ARL
Should you be buying Banco BBVA Argentina stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Banco BBVA Argentina include Banco de Chile (BCH), Banco Macro (BMA), Bancolombia (CIB), Grupo Financiero Galicia (GGAL), Grupo Supervielle (SUPV), Intercorp Financial Services (IFS), Summit State Bank (SSBI), abrdn National Municipal Income Fund (VFL), AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (AWF), and American Realty Investors (ARL). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Banco de Chile (NYSE:BCH) and Banco BBVA Argentina (NYSE:BBAR) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
1.2% of Banco de Chile shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.9% of Banco de Chile shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Banco de Chile presently has a consensus target price of $22.00, indicating a potential downside of 6.98%. Given Banco BBVA Argentina's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Banco de Chile is more favorable than Banco BBVA Argentina.
Banco de Chile pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Banco BBVA Argentina pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Banco de Chile pays out 41.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Banco BBVA Argentina pays out 4.5% 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 has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Banco de Chile is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Banco de Chile has a net margin of 29.41% compared to Banco de Chile's net margin of 4.55%. Banco BBVA Argentina's return on equity of 23.65% beat Banco de Chile's return on equity.
Banco de Chile has a beta of 0.4, suggesting that its share price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Banco BBVA Argentina has a beta of 1.55, suggesting that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Banco de Chile and Banco de Chile both had 4 articles in the media. Banco BBVA Argentina's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Banco de Chile's score of 0.00 indicating that Banco de Chile is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Banco de Chile has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Banco BBVA Argentina. Banco BBVA Argentina is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Banco de Chile, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Banco BBVA Argentina received 89 more outperform votes than Banco de Chile when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.08% of users gave Banco BBVA Argentina an outperform vote while only 58.37% of users gave Banco de Chile an outperform vote.
Summary
Banco de Chile beats Banco BBVA Argentina on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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