BBD vs. BNS, BK, DB, FITB, MTB, FCNCA, STT, NTRS, CFG, and ALLY
Should you be buying Banco Bradesco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Banco Bradesco include Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS), Bank of New York Mellon (BK), Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft (DB), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), M&T Bank (MTB), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), State Street (STT), Northern Trust (NTRS), Citizens Financial Group (CFG), and Ally Financial (ALLY). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Banco Bradesco (NYSE:BBD) and Bank of Nova Scotia (NYSE:BNS) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and media sentiment.
49.1% of Bank of Nova Scotia shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Banco Bradesco shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Banco Bradesco presently has a consensus target price of $3.15, indicating a potential upside of 28.57%. Bank of Nova Scotia has a consensus target price of $68.00, indicating a potential upside of 44.80%. Given Bank of Nova Scotia's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Bank of Nova Scotia is more favorable than Banco Bradesco.
Bank of Nova Scotia received 419 more outperform votes than Banco Bradesco when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.47% of users gave Bank of Nova Scotia an outperform vote while only 57.39% of users gave Banco Bradesco an outperform vote.
Bank of Nova Scotia has higher revenue and earnings than Banco Bradesco. Bank of Nova Scotia is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Banco Bradesco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Banco Bradesco pays an annual dividend of $0.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Bank of Nova Scotia pays an annual dividend of $3.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Banco Bradesco pays out 13.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bank of Nova Scotia pays out 70.7% 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.
Bank of Nova Scotia has a net margin of 10.40% compared to Banco Bradesco's net margin of 6.70%. Bank of Nova Scotia's return on equity of 11.40% beat Banco Bradesco's return on equity.
In the previous week, Bank of Nova Scotia had 3 more articles in the media than Banco Bradesco. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Bank of Nova Scotia and 3 mentions for Banco Bradesco. Banco Bradesco's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Bank of Nova Scotia's score of 0.57 indicating that Banco Bradesco is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Banco Bradesco has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bank of Nova Scotia has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Bank of Nova Scotia beats Banco Bradesco on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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