PFIS vs. FISI, FDBC, FNLC, SFST, GNTY, SASR, OCFC, BFC, FBMS, and AMTB
Should you be buying Peoples Financial Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Peoples Financial Services include Financial Institutions (FISI), Fidelity D & D Bancorp (FDBC), First Bancorp (FNLC), Southern First Bancshares (SFST), Guaranty Bancshares (GNTY), Sandy Spring Bancorp (SASR), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), Bank First (BFC), First Bancshares (FBMS), and Amerant Bancorp (AMTB). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
Peoples Financial Services (NASDAQ:PFIS) and Financial Institutions (NASDAQ:FISI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation and profitability.
31.7% of Peoples Financial Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.5% of Financial Institutions shares are held by institutional investors. 4.1% of Peoples Financial Services shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Financial Institutions shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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 54.87% of users gave Peoples Financial Services an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Peoples Financial Services had 3 more articles in the media than Financial Institutions. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Peoples Financial Services and 2 mentions for Financial Institutions. Financial Institutions' average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat Peoples Financial Services' score of 0.44 indicating that Financial Institutions 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%. Financial Institutions pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. Peoples Financial Services pays out 50.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Financial Institutions pays out 47.8% 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 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Peoples Financial Services has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Financial Institutions has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Peoples Financial Services currently has a consensus price target of $45.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.96%. Financial Institutions has a consensus price target of $20.67, indicating a potential upside of 18.23%. Given Financial Institutions' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Financial Institutions is more favorable than Peoples Financial Services.
Peoples Financial Services has a net margin of 13.81% compared to Financial Institutions' net margin of 11.53%. Financial Institutions' return on equity of 9.66% beat Peoples Financial Services' return on equity.
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.
Summary
Financial Institutions beats Peoples Financial Services on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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