IFS vs. AVAL, ITCL, NTB, BLX, WF, BSAC, BCH, NSA, AX, and SITC
Should you be buying Intercorp Financial Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Intercorp Financial Services include Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores (AVAL), Banco Itaú Chile (ITCL), Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son (NTB), Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S. A. (BLX), Woori Financial Group (WF), Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC), Banco de Chile (BCH), National Storage Affiliates Trust (NSA), Axos Financial (AX), and SITE Centers (SITC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores (NYSE:AVAL) and Intercorp Financial Services (NYSE:IFS) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores pays an annual dividend of $0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.9%. Intercorp Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores pays out 300.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Intercorp Financial Services pays out 45.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
0.2% of Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores has higher revenue and earnings than Intercorp Financial Services. Intercorp Financial Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores received 139 more outperform votes than Intercorp Financial Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 54.93% of users gave Intercorp Financial Services an outperform vote while only 51.59% of users gave Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores had 1 more articles in the media than Intercorp Financial Services. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores and 4 mentions for Intercorp Financial Services. Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores' average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Intercorp Financial Services' score of 0.03 indicating that Intercorp Financial Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intercorp Financial Services has a beta of 1.34, meaning that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Intercorp Financial Services has a net margin of 17.52% compared to Intercorp Financial Services' net margin of 1.00%. Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores' return on equity of 11.20% beat Intercorp Financial Services' return on equity.
Intercorp Financial Services has a consensus price target of $31.45, suggesting a potential upside of 32.14%. Given Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Intercorp Financial Services is more favorable than Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores.
Summary
Intercorp Financial Services beats Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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