ITUB vs. BBDO, BBD, NBN, BNS, BK, DB, FITB, MTB, FCNCA, and STT
Should you be buying Itaú Unibanco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Itaú Unibanco include Banco Bradesco (BBDO), Banco Bradesco (BBD), Northeast Bank (NBN), Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS), Bank of New York Mellon (BK), Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft (DB), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), M&T Bank (MTB), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), and State Street (STT). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Banco Bradesco (NYSE:BBDO) 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 earnings, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Itaú Unibanco received 299 more outperform votes than Banco Bradesco when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.65% of users gave Itaú Unibanco an outperform vote while only 61.79% of users gave Banco Bradesco an outperform vote.
Itaú Unibanco has higher revenue and earnings than Banco Bradesco. Itaú Unibanco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Banco Bradesco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Itaú Unibanco has a net margin of 11.09% compared to Itaú Unibanco's net margin of 6.70%. Banco Bradesco's return on equity of 18.73% beat Itaú Unibanco's return on equity.
Itaú Unibanco has a consensus price target of $7.05, indicating a potential upside of 17.70%. Given Banco Bradesco's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Itaú Unibanco is more favorable than Banco Bradesco.
Banco Bradesco pays an annual dividend of $0.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Itaú Unibanco pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Banco Bradesco pays out 13.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Itaú Unibanco pays out 5.4% 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 Bradesco has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Itaú Unibanco has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Itaú Unibanco had 3 more articles in the media than Banco Bradesco. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Itaú Unibanco and 3 mentions for Banco Bradesco. Itaú Unibanco's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Banco Bradesco's score of 0.36 indicating that Banco Bradesco is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Itaú Unibanco beats Banco Bradesco on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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