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 92.24% of US stocks.
• BLX's strongest trending metric is Sentiment; it's been moving down over the last 155 days.
• BLX's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 8.19% of US stocks).

BLX Stock Summary

• Price to trailing twelve month operating cash flow for BLX is currently 0.59, higher than just 2.27% of US stocks with positive operating cash flow.
• For BLX, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by 98.43% of US equities we're observing.
• 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 184.77%, greater than the shareholder yield of 98.79% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to BLX, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are MFA, AAIC, WVFC, CHMI, and NAVI.
• BLX's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Foreign Trade Bank Of Latin America Inc's official web site, go to www.bladex.com.

BLX Valuation Summary

• BLX's price/sales ratio is 6.6; this is 450% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• Over the past 239 months, BLX's price/sales ratio has gone down 10.9.
• BLX's price/earnings ratio has moved down 184.7 over the prior 239 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for BLX.

BLX Growth Metrics

Its year over year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -26.68%.
• The year over year revenue growth rate now stands at -21.71%.
• Its 3 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at -1.14%.

Over the past 12 months, BLX's revenue has gone down $27,500,000.

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
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.