Banco de Chile (CHILE.SN) fair value

ACCE thesis

Banco de Chile is a Santiago-based universal bank whose core products are consumer and commercial lending, credit cards, mortgages and transaction banking, with its LATAM-facing arm and brokerage operations adding fee income alongside net interest revenue. Its edge is scale and returns: a 24.9% ROE and a 56.7% operating margin sit well above what most regional lenders manage, and that profitability funds growth without leaning on outside capital. The data shows trailing revenue growth of 313.6%, which likely reflects inflation-driven nominal revenue in Chilean pesos and should be checked against underlying loan volumes and net interest margin before it is treated as organic expansion. At 16.0x trailing and 18.0x forward earnings, the valuation carries a forward multiple above the trailing one, so the market is not pricing in a near-term earnings decline, and the forward figure implies a slightly lower expected earnings base than the trailing figure, a point worth testing against consensus revisions. The stock scores 78/100 on our framework and is not in any major index, which may limit passive demand and make the name more sensitive to local Chilean rate and peso moves than a larger-cap bank would be.