AVAL vs. ITCLY, NTB, BLX, WF, BSAC, BANF, HIW, SITC, AUB, and BNL
Should you be buying Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores include Banco Itau Chile Spon (ITCLY), Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son (NTB), Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S. A. (BLX), Woori Financial Group (WF), Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC), BancFirst (BANF), Highwoods Properties (HIW), SITE Centers (SITC), Atlantic Union Bankshares (AUB), and Broadstone Net Lease (BNL). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores (NYSE:AVAL) and Banco Itau Chile Spon (NASDAQ:ITCLY) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking and valuation.
Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores received 178 more outperform votes than Banco Itau Chile Spon when rated by MarketBeat users.
Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Banco Itau Chile Spon pays an annual dividend of $0.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores pays out 71.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Banco Itau Chile Spon pays out 25.8% 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 Itau Chile Spon is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores had 2 more articles in the media than Banco Itau Chile Spon. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores and 0 mentions for Banco Itau Chile Spon. Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Banco Itau Chile Spon'saverage media sentiment score.
0.2% of Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.2% of Banco Itau Chile Spon shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Banco Itau Chile Spon has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores. Banco Itau Chile Spon 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.
Banco Itau Chile Spon has a net margin of 10.54% compared to Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores' net margin of 2.04%. Banco Itau Chile Spon's return on equity of 10.65% beat Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores' return on equity.
Summary
Banco Itau Chile Spon beats Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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