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Banco Bradesco serves individuals and businesses, with banking providing most of its revenue. It takes deposits and raises other funding, then lends to customers and holds interest-earning investments. It earns the difference between the interest it receives and its funding costs, while customers also pay fees for services such as payments and investment management. Its interest and fee income comes overwhelmingly from Brazil.
Insurance and retirement savings are also substantial businesses. Through Grupo Bradesco Seguros, customers pay insurance premiums, pension-plan contributions and payments into savings products that offer prize draws. The group earns income from these activities, including management fees and interest on invested funds. Insurance earnings depend on whether claims and benefit payments stay within the assumptions used to price policies.
The banking business depends on borrowers repaying and on the gap between lending and investment returns and funding costs. Brazilian rules require it to retain capital and place some deposits with the central bank, limiting funds available for lending. Rules also cap overdraft rates and the total interest and financial charges on credit-card financing.
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Bradesco’s results hinge on Brazilian credit demand, borrower defaults, funding costs and insurance earnings; also watch Banco do Brasil and Caixa Econômica Federal, important lending and deposit rivals missing from this list.
Itaú Unibanco challenges Bradesco across Brazilian banking, investments, insurance and pensions, serving both individuals and businesses. Its lending to individuals is a useful place to watch competition for Bradesco’s retail borrowers.
Santander Brasil competes with Bradesco for Brazilian individuals’ and businesses’ loans, deposits and banking services. Watch its services for individuals and small and medium-sized businesses, where the two banks seek the same customers.
Nu Holdings competes with Bradesco for Brazilian consumers’ credit cards, loans, deposits and mobile banking relationships through its app-based financial services. Watch its Brazilian customer activity, rather than its Latin American total, for the competition facing Bradesco’s mobile banking business.
Inter & Co. Inc. competes with Bradesco for Brazilian retail banking customers and the deposits that fund both banks. Watch Inter’s customer deposits and funding costs: it attributes its funding-cost advantage to the high share of deposits in its funding.
XP Inc. competes with Bradesco’s fund manager Bradesco Asset and brokerage Ágora for Brazilian investors’ assets and financial-product purchases. Watch the assets clients bring to XP and the products they buy, which drive XP’s revenue while Bradesco earns fund fees tied to the assets it administers or manages.
Banco Santander competes with Bradesco for Brazilian customers’ loans and deposits through Santander Brasil, but its wider operations make its overall results a less direct view of that rivalry.
PagSeguro Digital Ltd.’s PagBank competes with Bradesco for Brazilian individuals’ and businesses’ banking, card and investment activity. Its combination of merchant payment acceptance, bank accounts and cards is worth watching alongside Bradesco’s banking and card business.
StoneCo Ltd. competes with Bradesco to provide Brazilian small businesses with banking, credit and payment processing. Watch its Stone offering that combines merchant payments and banking, where it overlaps with Bradesco’s business loans and services for collecting and paying money.
Banco Bradesco S.A. earningsThis company
Bradesco earns from Brazilian customers’ loans, deposits and banking services, and its report will show whether lending income outweighs funding costs and credit losses.
Read net interest income and fee income alongside expected credit losses. If income grows while losses stay contained, lending and customer services are bringing in more than funding and bad-debt costs consume. If income weakens or losses rise, loan growth is not translating into sturdier earnings.
BANCO SANTANDER (BRASIL) SA earningsBSBR
Santander Brasil’s report will show loan and deposit activity among Brazilian individuals and businesses, giving Bradesco a read on demand from the customers both banks seek.
Look at whether Santander Brasil’s loans and deposits both grow. Growth in both suggests individuals and businesses are still borrowing and keeping money at banks, leaving Bradesco more customer demand to compete for; weakness in both points to a cooler market for its lending and deposits.
Fed Interest Rate Decision
For Bradesco, the Fed’s decision tracks the US central bank’s benchmark interest rate; changes can affect Brazilian activity, credit demand and the cost of funding its deposit-and-loan business.
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If it comes in above expectations
If the Fed rate is higher than expected, repricing debt and new borrowing become more expensive, which may raise funding costs for Bradesco and weigh on Brazilian customers’ borrowing and credit demand.
If it comes in below expectations
If the Fed rate is lower than expected, repricing debt and new borrowing become cheaper, which may ease Bradesco’s funding costs and support Brazilian customers’ borrowing and credit demand.
Inter & Co. Inc. earningsINTR
Inter & Co.’s report will show whether its deposit funding remains inexpensive, giving Bradesco a read on deposit competition for Brazilian retail customers.
Read Inter’s customer deposits alongside its funding costs. A high deposit share with low funding costs shows that this funding mix is helping it keep lending costs down, putting more pressure on Bradesco to attract deposits and protect lending margins; rising costs mean that advantage is narrowing.
StoneCo Ltd. earningsSTNE
StoneCo’s report will show how Brazilian small businesses use its merchant payments and banking, which overlap with Bradesco’s small-business lending and cash-management services.
Look at whether Stone’s merchant-payment activity and banking services strengthen together. If both do, small businesses are using Stone more for collecting payments and banking, sharpening competition for Bradesco’s loans and day-to-day cash-management business; weaker activity suggests less pressure through this channel.
XP Inc. earningsXP
XP’s report will show the assets investors bring and the products they buy, revealing competition for client money faced by Bradesco Asset and Ágora.
Read changes in XP’s client assets alongside product purchases. Growth in both means more investors are bringing money to XP and buying products, intensifying competition for client assets and product revenue at Bradesco Asset and Ágora; weakness in both points to less pressure.
