Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S.A. (BLX): Price and Financial Metrics

BLX POWR Grades

• BLX scores best on the Momentum dimension, with a Momentum rank ahead of 77.21% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for BLX is in Stability, which has been heading down over the past 179 days.
• BLX ranks lowest in Quality; there it ranks in the 21st percentile.

BLX Stock Summary

• For BLX, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by 99.23% of US equities we're observing.
• As for revenue growth, note that BLX's revenue has grown -24.66% over the past 12 months; that beats the revenue growth of just 7.39% of US companies in our set.
• FOREIGN TRADE BANK OF LATIN AMERICA INC's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is -284.07%, greater than the shareholder yield of only 2.08% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to BLX, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are CIM, EFC, WMC, MITT, and ACRE.
• Visit BLX's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.bladex.com.

BLX Valuation Summary

• BLX's price/sales ratio is 5.6; this is 330.77% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• BLX's price/earnings ratio has moved down 15.8 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for BLX.

BLX Growth Metrics

Its 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -50.52%.
• Its year over year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 45.06%.
• The 3 year revenue growth rate now stands at -24.6%.

Over the past 24 months, BLX's revenue has gone down $22,451,000.

The table below shows BLX's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	104.206	-972.68	62.697
2020-12-31	99.157	1,144.301	63.593
2019-12-31	126.657	-192.152	86.053
2018-12-31	127.589	-277.218	11.138
2017-12-31	138.313	558.745	81.999
2016-12-31	167.974	829.139	87.045

BLX's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• BLX has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 26.93% of graded US stocks.
• BLX's asset turnover comes in at 0.015 -- ranking 424th of 428 Banking stocks.
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The table below shows BLX's key quality metrics over time.