Mentor Capital (OTCMKTS:MNTR) & BB Seguridade Participacoes (OTCMKTS:BBSEY) Head-To-Head Survey

BB Seguridade Participacoes (OTCMKTS:BBSEY) and Mentor Capital (OTCMKTS:MNTR) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, risk and analyst recommendations.

Risk and Volatility

BB Seguridade Participacoes has a beta of 0.64, indicating that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mentor Capital has a beta of -0.67, indicating that its stock price is 167% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings for BB Seguridade Participacoes and Mentor Capital, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
BB Seguridade Participacoes	0	1	0	1	3.00
Mentor Capital	0	0	0	0	0.00

Insider & Institutional Ownership

0.0% of BB Seguridade Participacoes shares are held by institutional investors. 23.7% of Mentor Capital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares BB Seguridade Participacoes and Mentor Capital”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
BB Seguridade Participacoes	$1.89 billion	6.90	$1.61 billion	$0.80	8.14
Mentor Capital	$7.71 million	0.14	-$840,000.00	($0.04)	-1.27

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

Profitability

This table compares BB Seguridade Participacoes and Mentor Capital’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BB Seguridade Participacoes	86.36%	77.96%	43.97%
Mentor Capital	N/A	-22.97%	-19.23%

Summary

BB Seguridade Participacoes beats Mentor Capital on 12 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About BB Seguridade Participacoes

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 Mentor Capital

Mentor Capital, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions and emerging growth investments. The firm provides passive equity funding and liquidity to smaller companies and owners in the medical, marijuana and social use cannabis companies. It invests in shelf IPO’s and public and private companies and seeks to provide public market access to owners of small private companies. The firm specializes in pre-IPO investments in Cannabis companies. It seeks to invest in energy sector of oil and gas, coal, uranium. In case of shelf IPO’s, the firm prefers to invest in companies with sales greater than $40 million. It prefers to take significant position in its portfolio companies. The firm invests only in companies that have earnings. Mentor Capital, Inc. was founded in 1985 and is based in Plano, Texas.