Financial Review: China Construction Bank (OTCMKTS:CICHY) and Halma (OTCMKTS:HLMAF)

China Construction Bank (OTCMKTS:CICHY) and Halma (OTCMKTS:HLMAF) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares China Construction Bank and Halma”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
China Construction Bank	$194.39 billion	1.06	$47.00 billion	$3.58	4.61
Halma	$2.56 billion	5.76	$337.88 million	N/A	N/A

China Construction Bank has higher revenue and earnings than Halma.

Dividends

China Construction Bank pays an annual dividend of $0.87 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. Halma pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. China Construction Bank pays out 24.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Volatility and Risk

China Construction Bank has a beta of 0.11, indicating that its share price is 89% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Halma has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares China Construction Bank and Halma’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
China Construction Bank	24.10%	10.44%	0.84%
Halma	N/A	N/A	N/A

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations for China Construction Bank and Halma, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
China Construction Bank	0	0	0	0	0.00
Halma	0	3	0	2	2.80

Summary

China Construction Bank beats Halma on 6 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About China Construction Bank

China Construction Bank Corporation provides various banking and related financial services to individuals and corporate customers in the People's Republic of China and internationally. It operates through Corporate Finance Business, Personal Finance Business, Treasury and Asset Management Business, and Others segments. The company accepts various deposits, such as foreign currency, all in one accounts, RMB, corporate term and notification, and corporate demand deposits, as well corporate deposits by agreement. Its loan products include personal business, car, and housing loans; and SME, traditional credit, commercial draft, buyer credit, and RMB credit line loans. The company also offers credit cards; physical gold for personal investment and personal gold accounts; foreign exchange services; certificate treasury and savings bonds, securities deposit accounts, and securities services, as well as bank-securities transfer and book-entry treasury bond over the counter transaction services; and wealth management products. In addition, it provides collection, salaries payment, third-party collection and payment, insurance agency, and remittance services; international settlement and financing, and FI services; securities and fund settlement services; guarantee-based, consulting and advising, and factoring services; fund custody services; and e-banking services. Further, the company offers institutional services comprising services for government agencies, social security, banks cooperation, bank-securities cooperation, bank-insurance cooperation, and services for non-banking financial institutions. China Construction Bank Corporation was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People's Republic of China.

About Halma

Halma plc, together its subsidiaries, provides technology solutions in the safety, health, and environmental markets in the United States, Mainland Europe, the United Kingdom, the Asia Pacific, Africa, the Middle East, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Safety, Environmental & Analysis, and Medical. The Safety segment provides fire safety, fire detection and fire suppression; safe movement in public, commercial, and industrial spaces; elevator safety; communications in emergencies; control of access in potentially hazardous industrial and commercial environments; electrical safety; and the safe management of pipelines and storage assets solutions. This segment serves shops and restaurants, healthcare facilities, and offices and stadiums; industrial and logistics assets; public spaces and critical infrastructure; and aerospace, and rail and automotive markets. The Environmental & Analysis segment offers optical, optoelectronic, and spectral imaging systems; environmental monitoring, water and waste water analysis and treatment, gas analysis and detection, and optical analysis systems. It serves the optical analysis, water analysis and treatment, gas detection, and environmental monitoring markets. The Medical segment provides critical fluidic components used by medical diagnostics and original equipment manufacturers; components, devices and systems that provide information and analytics to understand patient health and enable providers to make decisions across the continuum of care; technologies and solutions to enable in-vitro diagnostic systems and life-science discoveries and development; and technologies that enable treatment across clinical specialties. This segment serves the life sciences, health assessment and analytics, and therapeutic solutions market. The company was incorporated in 1894 and is headquartered in Amersham, the United Kingdom.