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 stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment and risk.
Premier Financial has higher revenue and earnings 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.
Dime Community Bancshares received 199 more outperform votes than Premier Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 49.42% 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 9.19% beat Premier Financial's return on equity.
Premier Financial presently has a consensus price target of $22.50, indicating a potential upside of 15.15%. Dime Community Bancshares has a consensus price target of $25.88, indicating a potential upside of 38.00%. Given Premier Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Dime Community Bancshares is more favorable than Premier Financial.
Premier Financial has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dime Community Bancshares has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Premier Financial had 2 more articles in the media than Dime Community Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Premier Financial and 17 mentions for Dime Community Bancshares. Dime Community Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.39 beat Premier Financial's score of 0.35 indicating that Premier Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
66.1% of Premier Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.3% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Premier Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.3% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Premier Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. Dime Community Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. 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 3 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.
Summary
Premier Financial beats Dime Community Bancshares on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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