WF vs. KB, BSBR, BAP, BSAC, GGAL, AVAL, INTR, ITCLY, NTB, and BLX
Should you be buying Woori Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Woori Financial Group include KB Financial Group (KB), Banco Santander (Brasil) (BSBR), Credicorp (BAP), Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC), Grupo Financiero Galicia (GGAL), Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores (AVAL), Inter & Co, Inc. (INTR), Banco Itau Chile Spon (ITCLY), Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son (NTB), and Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S. A. (BLX). These companies are all part of the "commercial banks, not elsewhere classified" industry.
KB Financial Group (NYSE:KB) and Woori Financial Group (NYSE:WF) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, risk, media sentiment and earnings.
11.5% of KB Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.8% of Woori Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. 69.0% of KB Financial Group 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.
KB Financial Group has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Woori Financial Group has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, KB Financial Group had 2 more articles in the media than Woori Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for KB Financial Group and 3 mentions for Woori Financial Group. Woori Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat KB Financial Group's score of 0.10 indicating that KB Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Woori Financial Group received 13 more outperform votes than KB Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.42% of users gave Woori Financial Group an outperform vote while only 61.14% of users gave KB Financial Group an outperform vote.
KB Financial Group has a net margin of 11.65% compared to KB Financial Group's net margin of 10.48%. KB Financial Group's return on equity of 7.08% beat Woori Financial Group's return on equity.
KB Financial Group has higher revenue and earnings than Woori Financial Group. Woori Financial Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than KB Financial Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
KB Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Woori Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $1.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. KB Financial Group pays out 23.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Woori Financial Group pays out 17.1% 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. Woori Financial Group has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Woori Financial Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
KB Financial Group beats Woori Financial Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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