CMA vs. BLX, WFC, USB, HBAN, RF, SHG, KEY, FHN, WBS, and CFR
Should you be buying Comerica stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Comerica include Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S. A. (BLX), Wells Fargo & Company (WFC), U.S. Bancorp (USB), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), Shinhan Financial Group (SHG), KeyCorp (KEY), First Horizon (FHN), Webster Financial (WBS), and Cullen/Frost Bankers (CFR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S. A. (NYSE:BLX) and Comerica (NYSE:CMA) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S. A. pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Comerica pays an annual dividend of $2.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S. A. pays out 40.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Comerica pays out 56.5% 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 Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S. A. has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Comerica has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S. A. is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Comerica received 627 more outperform votes than Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S. A. when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.65% of users gave Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S. A. an outperform vote while only 52.51% of users gave Comerica an outperform vote.
19.5% of Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S. A. shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.7% of Comerica shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S. A. shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Comerica shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Comerica has higher revenue and earnings than Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S. A.. Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S. A. is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Comerica, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S. A. presently has a consensus price target of $37.33, indicating a potential upside of 25.15%. Comerica has a consensus price target of $56.89, indicating a potential upside of 13.52%. Given Comerica's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S. A. is more favorable than Comerica.
In the previous week, Comerica had 11 more articles in the media than Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S. A.. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Comerica and 3 mentions for Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S. A.. Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S. A.'s average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Comerica's score of -0.08 indicating that Comerica is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S. A. has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Comerica has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S. A. has a net margin of 23.58% compared to Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S. A.'s net margin of 13.11%. Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S. A.'s return on equity of 16.51% beat Comerica's return on equity.
Summary
Comerica beats Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S. A. on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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