CIB vs. BBAR, BCH, BMA, GGAL, SUPV, IFS, SSBI, VFL, AGMH, and AWF
Should you be buying Bancolombia stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bancolombia include Banco BBVA Argentina (BBAR), Banco de Chile (BCH), Banco Macro (BMA), 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 Bancolombia (NYSE:CIB) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, community ranking and earnings.
Bancolombia has a consensus price target of $33.12, suggesting a potential downside of 7.71%. Given Banco BBVA Argentina's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Bancolombia is more favorable than Banco BBVA Argentina.
Banco BBVA Argentina has a beta of 1.55, indicating that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bancolombia has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Bancolombia had 7 more articles in the media than Banco BBVA Argentina. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Bancolombia and 1 mentions for Banco BBVA Argentina. Banco BBVA Argentina's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Bancolombia's score of 0.00 indicating that Bancolombia is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Banco BBVA Argentina pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Bancolombia pays an annual dividend of $3.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.1%. Banco BBVA Argentina pays out 4.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bancolombia pays out 56.9% 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. Bancolombia has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Bancolombia is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Bancolombia has a net margin of 13.64% compared to Bancolombia's net margin of 4.55%. Banco BBVA Argentina's return on equity of 19.35% beat Bancolombia's return on equity.
Banco BBVA Argentina received 40 more outperform votes than Bancolombia when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.08% of users gave Banco BBVA Argentina an outperform vote while only 58.79% of users gave Bancolombia an outperform vote.
Bancolombia has higher revenue and earnings than Banco BBVA Argentina. Bancolombia is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Banco BBVA Argentina, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Bancolombia beats Banco BBVA Argentina on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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