FDBC vs. FISI, PFIS, BCAL, CBNK, NEWT, CARE, FNLC, FLIC, SFST, and GNTY
Should you be buying Fidelity D & D Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fidelity D & D Bancorp include Financial Institutions (FISI), Peoples Financial Services (PFIS), Southern California Bancorp (BCAL), Capital Bancorp (CBNK), NewtekOne (NEWT), Carter Bankshares (CARE), First Bancorp (FNLC), First of Long Island (FLIC), Southern First Bancshares (SFST), and Guaranty Bancshares (GNTY). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
Financial Institutions (NASDAQ:FISI) and Fidelity D & D Bancorp (NASDAQ:FDBC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends and institutional ownership.
Financial Institutions received 137 more outperform votes than Fidelity D & D Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.12% of users gave Fidelity D & D Bancorp an outperform vote while only 58.25% of users gave Financial Institutions an outperform vote.
Financial Institutions pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Fidelity D & D Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Financial Institutions pays out 47.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fidelity D & D Bancorp pays out 53.7% 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. Financial Institutions has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years and Fidelity D & D Bancorp has increased its dividend for 9 consecutive years. Financial Institutions is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Financial Institutions has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fidelity D & D Bancorp has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
60.5% of Financial Institutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.1% of Fidelity D & D Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Financial Institutions shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.7% of Fidelity D & D Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Fidelity D & D Bancorp has a net margin of 14.94% compared to Fidelity D & D Bancorp's net margin of 11.53%. Financial Institutions' return on equity of 12.02% beat Fidelity D & D Bancorp's return on equity.
Financial Institutions has higher revenue and earnings than Fidelity D & D Bancorp. Financial Institutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fidelity D & D Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Financial Institutions presently has a consensus target price of $20.67, indicating a potential upside of 15.01%. Given Fidelity D & D Bancorp's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Financial Institutions is more favorable than Fidelity D & D Bancorp.
In the previous week, Financial Institutions had 1 more articles in the media than Fidelity D & D Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Financial Institutions and 2 mentions for Fidelity D & D Bancorp. Fidelity D & D Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat Financial Institutions' score of 0.03 indicating that Financial Institutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Financial Institutions beats Fidelity D & D Bancorp on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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