CARE vs. PFIS, FISI, CBNK, BCAL, NEWT, FDBC, FNLC, SFST, FLIC, and GNTY
Should you be buying Carter Bankshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carter Bankshares include Peoples Financial Services (PFIS), Financial Institutions (FISI), Capital Bancorp (CBNK), Southern California Bancorp (BCAL), NewtekOne (NEWT), Fidelity D & D Bancorp (FDBC), First Bancorp (FNLC), Southern First Bancshares (SFST), First of Long Island (FLIC), and Guaranty Bancshares (GNTY). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
Carter Bankshares (NASDAQ:CARE) and Peoples Financial Services (NASDAQ:PFIS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.
Carter Bankshares has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Peoples Financial Services has a beta of 0.43, meaning that its stock price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Carter Bankshares currently has a consensus price target of $17.00, suggesting a potential upside of 34.49%. Given Carter Bankshares' higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Carter Bankshares is more favorable than Peoples Financial Services.
41.5% of Carter Bankshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.7% of Peoples Financial Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Carter Bankshares shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Peoples Financial Services shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Carter Bankshares had 1 more articles in the media than Peoples Financial Services. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Carter Bankshares and 3 mentions for Peoples Financial Services. Peoples Financial Services' average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Carter Bankshares' score of 0.26 indicating that Peoples Financial Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Peoples Financial Services has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Carter Bankshares. Peoples Financial Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carter Bankshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Peoples Financial Services has a net margin of 16.70% compared to Carter Bankshares' net margin of 10.89%. Peoples Financial Services' return on equity of 8.68% beat Carter Bankshares' return on equity.
Peoples Financial Services received 77 more outperform votes than Carter Bankshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.32% of users gave Peoples Financial Services an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Carter Bankshares an outperform vote.
Summary
Peoples Financial Services beats Carter Bankshares on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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