PFIS vs. FISI, CBNK, FDBC, BCAL, NEWT, CARE, FNLC, FLIC, SFST, and GNTY
Should you be buying Peoples Financial Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Peoples Financial Services include Financial Institutions (FISI), Capital Bancorp (CBNK), Fidelity D & D Bancorp (FDBC), Southern California Bancorp (BCAL), 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 Peoples Financial Services (NASDAQ:PFIS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and community ranking.
Financial Institutions pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. Peoples Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Financial Institutions pays out 47.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Peoples Financial Services pays out 50.3% 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 Peoples Financial Services has increased its dividend for 7 consecutive years. Financial Institutions is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Financial Institutions received 186 more outperform votes than Peoples Financial Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.25% of users gave Financial Institutions an outperform vote while only 56.32% of users gave Peoples Financial Services an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Financial Institutions had 5 more articles in the media than Peoples Financial Services. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Financial Institutions and 8 mentions for Peoples Financial Services. Financial Institutions' average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Peoples Financial Services' score of -0.17 indicating that Peoples Financial Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Financial Institutions has higher revenue and earnings than Peoples Financial Services. Financial Institutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Peoples Financial Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Financial Institutions presently has a consensus price target of $20.67, indicating a potential upside of 17.42%. Given Peoples Financial Services' higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Financial Institutions is more favorable than Peoples Financial Services.
60.5% of Financial Institutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.7% of Peoples Financial Services shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Financial Institutions shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of Peoples Financial Services shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Peoples Financial Services has a net margin of 13.81% compared to Peoples Financial Services' net margin of 11.53%. Peoples Financial Services' return on equity of 9.76% beat Financial Institutions' return on equity.
Financial Institutions has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Peoples Financial Services has a beta of 0.48, suggesting that its stock price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Financial Institutions beats Peoples Financial Services on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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