BB Seguridade Participações (OTCMKTS:BBSEY) & MTN Group (OTCMKTS:MTNOY) Head to Head Contrast

BB Seguridade Participações (OTCMKTS:BBSEY) and MTN Group (OTCMKTS:MTNOY) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Volatility and Risk

BB Seguridade Participações has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MTN Group has a beta of 1.46, indicating that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BB Seguridade Participações	84.97%	77.88%	45.13%
MTN Group	N/A	N/A	N/A

Insider & Institutional Ownership

0.0% of BB Seguridade Participações shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Dividends

BB Seguridade Participações pays an annual dividend of $0.43 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.1%. MTN Group pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. BB Seguridade Participações pays out 51.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares BB Seguridade Participações and MTN Group”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
BB Seguridade Participações	$1.81 billion	6.70	$1.59 billion	$0.84	7.23
MTN Group	$12.00 billion	0.79	$221.79 million	N/A	N/A

BB Seguridade Participações has higher earnings, but lower revenue than MTN Group.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for BB Seguridade Participações and MTN Group, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
BB Seguridade Participações	0	0	0	1	4.00
MTN Group	0	0	0	0	0.00

Summary

BB Seguridade Participações beats MTN Group on 9 of the 12 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 MTN Group

MTN Group Limited, together with its subsidiaries, provides mobile telecommunications services in South Africa, Nigeria, East Africa, West and Central Africa, and the Middle East and North Africa. The company offers data, voice and SMS, digital and fintech, interconnect, and roaming services, as well as sells mobile devices. It also provides network as a service, including subsea cables that offers international connectivity services; terrestrial and metro fiber networks; data centers and cable landing stations; and FTTx, towers, and radio access networks. The company also offers digital financial services, such as access payments, e-commerce, insurance, and lending and remittance services; enterprise services comprising manage networks, unified and cloud communication, security as a service, and Internet of Things; and API products and services for telecommunications, health, government, financial services, entertainment, and other sectors. MTN Group Limited was incorporated in 1994 and is based in Johannesburg, South Africa.