FDBC vs. PFIS, CBNK, FNLC, BCAL, FISI, CARE, FLIC, SFST, GNTY, and LCNB
Should you be buying Fidelity D & D Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fidelity D & D Bancorp include Peoples Financial Services (PFIS), Capital Bancorp (CBNK), First Bancorp (FNLC), Southern California Bancorp (BCAL), Financial Institutions (FISI), Carter Bankshares (CARE), First of Long Island (FLIC), Southern First Bancshares (SFST), Guaranty Bancshares (GNTY), and LCNB (LCNB). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
Peoples Financial Services (NASDAQ:PFIS) and Fidelity D & D Bancorp (NASDAQ:FDBC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
31.7% of Peoples Financial Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.1% of Fidelity D & D Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.1% of Peoples Financial Services shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.0% of Fidelity D & D Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Fidelity D & D Bancorp has a net margin of 14.94% compared to Fidelity D & D Bancorp's net margin of 13.81%. Peoples Financial Services' return on equity of 11.78% beat Fidelity D & D Bancorp's return on equity.
Peoples Financial Services has a beta of 0.48, meaning that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fidelity D & D Bancorp has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Fidelity D & D Bancorp received 49 more outperform votes than Peoples Financial Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.12% of users gave Fidelity D & D Bancorp an outperform vote while only 55.73% of users gave Peoples Financial Services an outperform vote.
Peoples Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Fidelity D & D Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Peoples Financial Services pays out 50.3% 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. Peoples Financial Services has raised its dividend for 7 consecutive years and Fidelity D & D Bancorp has raised its dividend for 9 consecutive years. Peoples Financial Services is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Peoples Financial Services presently has a consensus price target of $45.00, suggesting a potential upside of 10.43%. Given Fidelity D & D Bancorp's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Peoples Financial Services is more favorable than Fidelity D & D Bancorp.
Peoples Financial Services has higher revenue and earnings than Fidelity D & D Bancorp. Peoples Financial Services 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.
In the previous week, Peoples Financial Services had 3 more articles in the media than Fidelity D & D Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Peoples Financial Services and 1 mentions for Fidelity D & D Bancorp. Peoples Financial Services' average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Fidelity D & D Bancorp's score of -1.10 indicating that Fidelity D & D Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Fidelity D & D Bancorp beats Peoples Financial Services on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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