BRKL vs. DCOM, PFC, CFFN, PFS, CASH, NFBK, KRNY, WSBF, HTBI, and FMAO
Should you be buying Brookline Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookline Bancorp include Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM), Premier Financial (PFC), Capitol Federal Financial (CFFN), Provident Financial Services (PFS), Pathward Financial (CASH), Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NFBK), Kearny Financial (KRNY), Waterstone Financial (WSBF), HomeTrust Bancshares (HTBI), and Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (FMAO). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Brookline Bancorp (NASDAQ:BRKL) and Dime Community Bancshares (NASDAQ:DCOM) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, earnings, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
78.9% of Brookline Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.3% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.9% of Brookline Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.3% of Dime Community Bancshares 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.
In the previous week, Dime Community Bancshares had 1 more articles in the media than Brookline Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Dime Community Bancshares and 15 mentions for Brookline Bancorp. Dime Community Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.35 beat Brookline Bancorp's score of 0.29 indicating that Dime Community Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Brookline Bancorp received 7 more outperform votes than Dime Community Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.05% of users gave Brookline Bancorp an outperform vote while only 49.42% of users gave Dime Community Bancshares an outperform vote.
Dime Community Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than Brookline Bancorp. Brookline Bancorp 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.
Brookline Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $11.08, suggesting a potential upside of 32.97%. Dime Community Bancshares has a consensus target price of $25.88, suggesting a potential upside of 35.61%. Given Dime Community Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Dime Community Bancshares is more favorable than Brookline Bancorp.
Brookline Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. Dime Community Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Brookline Bancorp pays out 58.1% 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.
Brookline Bancorp has a net margin of 13.13% compared to Dime Community Bancshares' net margin of 11.46%. Dime Community Bancshares' return on equity of 7.76% beat Brookline Bancorp's return on equity.
Brookline Bancorp has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dime Community Bancshares has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Dime Community Bancshares beats Brookline Bancorp on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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