WF vs. BSAC, AVAL, BAP, BSBR, KB, NNN, EGP, WBS, OHI, and PRI
Should you be buying Woori Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Woori Financial Group include Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC), Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores (AVAL), Credicorp (BAP), Banco Santander (Brasil) (BSBR), KB Financial Group (KB), NNN REIT (NNN), EastGroup Properties (EGP), Webster Financial (WBS), Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), and Primerica (PRI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Woori Financial Group (NYSE:WF) and Banco Santander-Chile (NYSE:BSAC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.
Woori Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $4.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.3%. Banco Santander-Chile pays an annual dividend of $0.57 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Woori Financial Group pays out 65.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Banco Santander-Chile pays out 48.7% 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 higher revenue and earnings than Banco Santander-Chile. Woori Financial Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Banco Santander-Chile, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Woori Financial Group has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Banco Santander-Chile has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Banco Santander-Chile has a consensus target price of $19.97, suggesting a potential downside of 0.07%. Given Banco Santander-Chile's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Banco Santander-Chile is more favorable than Woori Financial Group.
Woori Financial Group has a net margin of 10.81% compared to Banco Santander-Chile's net margin of 9.58%. Banco Santander-Chile's return on equity of 9.62% beat Woori Financial Group's return on equity.
17.8% of Woori Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.4% of Banco Santander-Chile shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Woori Financial Group and Woori Financial Group both had 2 articles in the media. Woori Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Banco Santander-Chile's score of 0.61 indicating that Woori Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Woori Financial Group received 14 more outperform votes than Banco Santander-Chile when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.42% of users gave Woori Financial Group an outperform vote while only 54.45% of users gave Banco Santander-Chile an outperform vote.
Summary
Woori Financial Group beats Banco Santander-Chile on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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