Comparing BB Seguridade Participações (OTCMKTS:BBSEY) and Sysmex (OTCMKTS:SSMXY)

BB Seguridade Participações (OTCMKTS:BBSEY) and Sysmex (OTCMKTS:SSMXY) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, earnings and profitability.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

0.0% of BB Seguridade Participações shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk & Volatility

BB Seguridade Participações has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sysmex has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares BB Seguridade Participações and Sysmex’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BB Seguridade Participações	85.25%	78.54%	46.93%
Sysmex	N/A	N/A	N/A

Dividends

BB Seguridade Participações pays an annual dividend of $0.43 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Sysmex pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. BB Seguridade Participações pays out 51.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sysmex pays out 23.7% 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.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for BB Seguridade Participações and Sysmex, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
BB Seguridade Participações	0	0	0	1	4.00
Sysmex	0	0	0	0	N/A

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares BB Seguridade Participações and Sysmex”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
BB Seguridade Participações	$1.81 billion	7.10	$1.59 billion	$0.83	7.76
Sysmex	$3.20 billion	3.92	$328.73 million	$0.51	39.28

BB Seguridade Participações has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Sysmex. BB Seguridade Participações is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sysmex, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

BB Seguridade Participações beats Sysmex on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About BB Seguridade Participações

BB Seguridade Participações S.A., through its subsidiaries operates in the insurance, pension plans, and bonds, businesses in Brazil. The company operates through Security and Brokerage segments. The Security segment offers life, property, rural, special risks and financial, transport, hulls, and housing people insurance products. It also offers pension plans, dental, and capitalization plans. The Brokerage segment engages in the brokerage, management, and promotion of pension plans, capitalization, capitalization, and dental plans. BB Seguridade Participações S.A. was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in Brasilia, Brazil. BB Seguridade Participações S.A. operates as a subsidiary of Banco do Brasil S.A.

About Sysmex

Sysmex Corporation engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of diagnostic instruments, reagents, and related software in Japan. It offers three-part and five-part white blood cell differentiation instruments for use in hematology; and transport systems for high-volume testing in labs. The company also provides automated urine particle analyzers; automated blood coagulation analyzers; automated immunochemistry systems, which perform assays on minute sample quantities, as well as reagents to test for infectious disease and tumor markers; and flow cytometers to perform analysis in diagnosing leukemia, malignant lymphoma, and HIV/AIDS. In addition, it offers cancer lymph node metastasis testing systems to detect information to help in diagnosing lymph node metastasis; and lab assay services. Further, the company is involved in the development and sale of software for diagnostic information systems; provision of facility management, office, welfare, and genetic analysis services; development, operation, and maintenance of IT solutions, platforms, and applications related to digital medicine; marketing, development, design, manufacture, sale, and after-sales service related to medical robots; and distribution and after sales support of medical devices and reagents for biotechnology, medical technology, and molecular cell analysis. Additionally, it researches, develops, manufactures, and sells regenerative medicine products; develops, manufactures, and sells biodevices; develops, maintains, and sells computer software; and offers blood DNA testing service. The company serves national and other public hospitals, private hospitals, universities, research institutes, other medical institutions, etc. It also exports its products to approximately 190 countries. The company was formerly known as TOA Medical Electronics Co., Ltd. and changed its name to Sysmex Corporation in October 1998. Sysmex Corporation was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Kobe, Japan.