BN vs. ITUB, KKR, APO, USB, AJG, BNS, ING, PNC, MET, and SAN
Should you be buying Brookfield stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield include Itaú Unibanco (ITUB), KKR & Co. Inc. (KKR), Apollo Global Management (APO), U.S. Bancorp (USB), Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (AJG), Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS), ING Groep (ING), The PNC Financial Services Group (PNC), MetLife (MET), and Banco Santander (SAN). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Brookfield (NYSE:BN) and Itaú Unibanco (NYSE:ITUB) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
58.2% of Brookfield shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.0% of Brookfield shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Itaú Unibanco shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Brookfield pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Itaú Unibanco pays an annual dividend of $0.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Brookfield pays out 311.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Itaú Unibanco pays out 37.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Itaú Unibanco is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Brookfield presently has a consensus price target of $47.60, indicating a potential upside of 57.98%. Itaú Unibanco has a consensus price target of $7.00, indicating a potential upside of 36.19%. Given Brookfield's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Brookfield is more favorable than Itaú Unibanco.
Itaú Unibanco has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Brookfield. Itaú Unibanco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookfield, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Itaú Unibanco has a net margin of 10.04% compared to Brookfield's net margin of 0.33%. Itaú Unibanco's return on equity of 17.71% beat Brookfield's return on equity.
Itaú Unibanco received 415 more outperform votes than Brookfield when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.84% of users gave Itaú Unibanco an outperform vote while only 64.71% of users gave Brookfield an outperform vote.
Brookfield has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Itaú Unibanco has a beta of 0.72, meaning that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Brookfield had 3 more articles in the media than Itaú Unibanco. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Brookfield and 3 mentions for Itaú Unibanco. Brookfield's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Itaú Unibanco's score of 0.17 indicating that Brookfield is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Brookfield beats Itaú Unibanco on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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