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 business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends and community ranking.
Premier Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Dime Community Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. 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 13 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 presently has a consensus price target of $22.50, suggesting a potential upside of 5.63%. Dime Community Bancshares has a consensus price target of $26.83, suggesting a potential upside of 34.23%. Given Premier Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Dime Community Bancshares is more favorable than Premier Financial.
In the previous week, Premier Financial and Premier Financial both had 3 articles in the media. Dime Community Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Premier Financial's score of -0.50 indicating that Premier Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Dime Community Bancshares received 199 more outperform votes than Premier Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 49.31% 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 net margin of 23.67% compared to Premier Financial's net margin of 11.46%. Dime Community Bancshares' return on equity of 9.12% beat Premier Financial's return on equity.
Premier Financial has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dime Community Bancshares has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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 held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.3% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of Premier Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.1% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Premier Financial beats Dime Community Bancshares on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get Dime Community Bancshares News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for DCOM and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding DCOM and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Dime Community Bancshares Competitors List
Related Companies and Tools
