BRKL vs. DCOM, PFC, CFFN, PFS, CASH, NFBK, KRNY, WSBF, HTBI, and FMAO
Should you be buying Brookline Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookline Bancorp include Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM), Premier Financial (PFC), Capitol Federal Financial (CFFN), Provident Financial Services (PFS), Pathward Financial (CASH), Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NFBK), Kearny Financial (KRNY), Waterstone Financial (WSBF), HomeTrust Bancshares (HTBI), and Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (FMAO). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Dime Community Bancshares (NASDAQ:DCOM) and Brookline Bancorp (NASDAQ:BRKL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, community ranking and earnings.
Dime Community Bancshares has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookline Bancorp has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Dime Community Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. Brookline Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. Dime Community Bancshares pays out 56.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brookline Bancorp pays out 58.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Dime Community Bancshares has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Brookline Bancorp has a net margin of 13.13% compared to Brookline Bancorp's net margin of 11.46%. Brookline Bancorp's return on equity of 7.76% beat Dime Community Bancshares' return on equity.
Dime Community Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than Brookline Bancorp. Brookline Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dime Community Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Brookline Bancorp received 7 more outperform votes than Dime Community Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.05% of users gave Brookline Bancorp an outperform vote while only 49.42% of users gave Dime Community Bancshares an outperform vote.
Dime Community Bancshares presently has a consensus target price of $25.88, indicating a potential upside of 36.47%. Brookline Bancorp has a consensus target price of $11.08, indicating a potential upside of 30.55%. Given Brookline Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Dime Community Bancshares is more favorable than Brookline Bancorp.
75.3% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.9% of Brookline Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.1% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Brookline Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Brookline Bancorp had 5 more articles in the media than Dime Community Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Brookline Bancorp and 13 mentions for Dime Community Bancshares. Dime Community Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Brookline Bancorp's score of 0.35 indicating that Brookline Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Dime Community Bancshares beats Brookline Bancorp on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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