DCOM vs. PFC, BRKL, OCFC, HTBI, NFBK, KRNY, FMAO, WSBF, NWBI, and FCAP
Should you be buying Dime Community Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dime Community Bancshares include Premier Financial (PFC), Brookline Bancorp (BRKL), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), HomeTrust Bancshares (HTBI), Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NFBK), Kearny Financial (KRNY), Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (FMAO), Waterstone Financial (WSBF), Northwest Bancshares (NWBI), and First Capital (FCAP). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Premier Financial (NASDAQ:PFC) and Dime Community Bancshares (NASDAQ:DCOM) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
Premier Financial presently has a consensus target price of $22.50, indicating a potential upside of 9.70%. Dime Community Bancshares has a consensus target price of $25.88, indicating a potential upside of 33.93%. Given Premier Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Dime Community Bancshares is more favorable than Premier Financial.
Dime Community Bancshares received 199 more outperform votes than Premier Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 49.42% of users gave Dime Community Bancshares an outperform vote while only 40.00% of users gave Premier Financial an outperform vote.
Premier Financial has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dime Community Bancshares has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Dime Community Bancshares had 4 more articles in the media than Premier Financial. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Dime Community Bancshares and 6 mentions for Premier Financial. Premier Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Dime Community Bancshares' score of 0.23 indicating that Dime Community Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Premier Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. Dime Community Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Premier Financial pays out 40.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Dime Community Bancshares pays out 56.2% 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. Premier Financial has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Dime Community Bancshares has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Premier Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Premier Financial has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Dime Community Bancshares. Premier Financial 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.
66.1% of Premier Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.3% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Premier Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.1% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Premier Financial has a net margin of 23.67% compared to Premier Financial's net margin of 11.46%. Dime Community Bancshares' return on equity of 9.19% beat Premier Financial's return on equity.
Summary
Dime Community Bancshares beats Premier Financial on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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