PFIS vs. CBNK, FDBC, FISI, FNLC, BCAL, CARE, FLIC, SFST, GNTY, and NEWT
Should you be buying Peoples Financial Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Peoples Financial Services include Capital Bancorp (CBNK), Fidelity D & D Bancorp (FDBC), Financial Institutions (FISI), First Bancorp (FNLC), Southern California Bancorp (BCAL), Carter Bankshares (CARE), First of Long Island (FLIC), Southern First Bancshares (SFST), Guaranty Bancshares (GNTY), and NewtekOne (NEWT). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
Peoples Financial Services (NASDAQ:PFIS) and Capital Bancorp (NASDAQ:CBNK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Peoples Financial Services has a beta of 0.48, suggesting that its stock price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Capital Bancorp has a beta of 0.44, suggesting that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.
31.7% of Peoples Financial Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.1% of Capital Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.1% of Peoples Financial Services shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 32.5% of Capital Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Capital Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Peoples Financial Services. Capital Bancorp 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.
In the previous week, Peoples Financial Services had 3 more articles in the media than Capital Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Peoples Financial Services and 1 mentions for Capital Bancorp. Capital Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.95 beat Peoples Financial Services' score of -1.10 indicating that Capital Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Peoples Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Capital Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Peoples Financial Services pays out 50.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Capital Bancorp pays out 13.7% 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 received 3 more outperform votes than Capital Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.73% of users gave Peoples Financial Services an outperform vote while only 53.89% of users gave Capital Bancorp an outperform vote.
Capital Bancorp has a net margin of 15.35% compared to Peoples Financial Services' net margin of 13.81%. Capital Bancorp's return on equity of 13.36% beat Peoples Financial Services' return on equity.
Peoples Financial Services currently has a consensus target price of $45.00, suggesting a potential upside of 10.43%. Capital Bancorp has a consensus target price of $26.00, suggesting a potential upside of 27.08%. Given Capital Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Capital Bancorp is more favorable than Peoples Financial Services.
Summary
Capital Bancorp beats Peoples Financial Services on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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