BCH vs. BBAR, BMA, CIB, GGAL, SUPV, IFS, SSBI, VFL, AGMH, and AWF Should you be buying Banco de Chile stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Banco de Chile include Banco BBVA Argentina (BBAR), 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), AGM Group (AGMH), and AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (AWF). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Banco BBVA Argentina (NYSE:BBAR ) and Banco de Chile (NYSE:BCH ) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, risk and community ranking.
Banco BBVA Argentina pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Banco de Chile pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Banco BBVA Argentina pays out 4.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Banco de Chile pays out 41.8% 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.
In the previous week, Banco BBVA Argentina had 1 more articles in the media than Banco de Chile. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Banco BBVA Argentina and 0 mentions for Banco de Chile. Banco BBVA Argentina's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Banco de Chile's score of -0.35 indicating that Banco de Chile is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Banco BBVA Argentina received 89 more outperform votes than Banco de Chile when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.98% of users gave Banco BBVA Argentina an outperform vote while only 58.37% of users gave Banco de Chile an outperform vote.
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.
1.2% of Banco de Chile shares are held by institutional investors. 5.9% of Banco de Chile shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Banco de Chile has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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 has a beta of 1.55, indicating that its stock price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Banco de Chile has a beta of 0.4, indicating that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Banco de Chile has a consensus target price of $22.00, suggesting a potential downside of 10.35%. Given Banco BBVA Argentina's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Banco de Chile is more favorable than Banco BBVA Argentina.
Summary Banco de Chile beats Banco BBVA Argentina on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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