Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores S.A. (AVAL) vs Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc. (ESQ)

Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores S.A. and Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc. are both Banks Regional companies. Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores S.A. and Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc. are of similar size ($1.6B and $1.5B). Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores S.A. trades at the lower P/E: 10.5× against 19.7×. Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc. grew revenue faster over the last twelve months: 20.0% against 1.48%. Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc. has the higher net margin (29.3% vs 5.23%) and the higher return on invested capital (61.2% vs −0.19%). Both pay a dividend; Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores S.A. yields more (4.17% vs 0.61%). Across the 19 metrics below, Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc. leads on 11 and Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores S.A. on 8.

Valuation

Metric AVAL ESQ Banks Regional median
P/E 10.48 19.69 12.02
P/S 0.58 5.84 2.36
P/B 0.72 3.35 1.23
Price to free cash flow 2.24 16.34 10.60
EV/EBITDA — — —
EV/Sales — — —
Earnings yield 9.55% 5.08% 8.21%
Free cash flow yield 44.66% 6.12% 9.23%

Profitability

Metric AVAL ESQ Banks Regional median
Gross margin 43.20% 88.70% 69.81%
Operating margin 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Net margin 5.23% 29.30% 18.82%
Free cash flow margin 0.00% 35.75% 17.97%
Return on equity 0.00% 18.26% 10.28%
Return on assets 0.52% 2.31% 1.13%
Return on invested capital (0.19%) 61.15% 8.45%

Growth

Metric AVAL ESQ Banks Regional median
Revenue growth (TTM) 1.48% 19.99% 6.37%
EPS growth (last fiscal year) 71.43% 14.20% 18.85%
Revenue growth, 5-year CAGR (10.60%) 25.29% 12.65%
Net income growth, 5-year CAGR (13.35%) 32.13% 9.81%

Health

Metric AVAL ESQ Banks Regional median
Debt to equity 0.56 0.00 0.17
Current ratio 0.88 0.97 0.93
Net debt to EBITDA 0.00 0.00 0.00

Dividend

Metric AVAL ESQ Banks Regional median
Dividend yield 4.17% 0.61% 2.49%
Payout ratio 0.44 0.13 0.29

Size

Metric AVAL ESQ Banks Regional median
Market cap 1.58b 1.54b 934.85m

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