FDEF vs. BRKL, CFFN, NFBK, PFS, KRNY, WSBF, HTBI, FMAO, NRIM, and SBT
Should you be buying Premier Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Premier Financial include Brookline Bancorp (BRKL), Capitol Federal Financial (CFFN), Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NFBK), Provident Financial Services (PFS), Kearny Financial (KRNY), Waterstone Financial (WSBF), HomeTrust Bancshares (HTBI), Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (FMAO), Northrim BanCorp (NRIM), and Sterling Bancorp (SBT). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Premier Financial (NASDAQ:FDEF) and Brookline Bancorp (NASDAQ:BRKL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.
In the previous week, Brookline Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than Premier Financial. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Brookline Bancorp and 0 mentions for Premier Financial. Brookline Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.42 beat Premier Financial's score of 0.00 indicating that Brookline Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Brookline Bancorp has a consensus target price of $11.08, suggesting a potential upside of 26.52%. Given Brookline Bancorp's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Brookline Bancorp is more favorable than Premier Financial.
Brookline Bancorp received 44 more outperform votes than Premier Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.05% of users gave Brookline Bancorp an outperform vote while only 51.46% of users gave Premier Financial an outperform vote.
Brookline Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Premier Financial. Premier Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookline Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
64.9% of Premier Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.9% of Brookline Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Premier Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Brookline Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Premier Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Brookline Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. Premier Financial pays out 34.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brookline Bancorp pays out 58.1% 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 a beta of 1.42, indicating that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookline Bancorp has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Brookline Bancorp has a net margin of 13.13% compared to Premier Financial's net margin of 7.34%. Premier Financial's return on equity of 8.19% beat Brookline Bancorp's return on equity.
Summary
Brookline Bancorp beats Premier Financial on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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