DCOM vs. TFSL, SMPL, WSFS, WD, WAFD, PFS, AGM, BANC, NWBI, and BHLB
Should you be buying Dime Community Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dime Community Bancshares include TFS Financial (TFSL), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), WSFS Financial (WSFS), Walker & Dunlop (WD), WaFd (WAFD), Provident Financial Services (PFS), Federal Agricultural Mortgage (AGM), Banc of California (BANC), Northwest Bancshares (NWBI), and Berkshire Hills Bancorp (BHLB). These companies are all part of the "thrifts & mortgage finance" industry.
Dime Community Bancshares vs. Its Competitors
Dime Community Bancshares (NASDAQ:DCOM) and TFS Financial (NASDAQ:TFSL) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk and institutional ownership.
Dime Community Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. TFS Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.13 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.6%. Dime Community Bancshares pays out 158.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. TFS Financial pays out 403.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Dime Community Bancshares has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
75.3% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.8% of TFS Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.1% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of TFS Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
TFS Financial has a net margin of 10.58% compared to Dime Community Bancshares' net margin of 4.50%. Dime Community Bancshares' return on equity of 5.43% beat TFS Financial's return on equity.
In the previous week, Dime Community Bancshares had 1 more articles in the media than TFS Financial. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Dime Community Bancshares and 1 mentions for TFS Financial. TFS Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Dime Community Bancshares' score of 1.63 indicating that TFS Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
TFS Financial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Dime Community Bancshares. Dime Community Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TFS Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
TFS Financial received 77 more outperform votes than Dime Community Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.34% of users gave TFS Financial an outperform vote while only 49.78% of users gave Dime Community Bancshares an outperform vote.
Dime Community Bancshares currently has a consensus target price of $36.88, indicating a potential upside of 34.70%. TFS Financial has a consensus target price of $15.00, indicating a potential upside of 14.50%. Given Dime Community Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Dime Community Bancshares is more favorable than TFS Financial.
Dime Community Bancshares has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TFS Financial has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Dime Community Bancshares beats TFS Financial on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:DCOM) was last updated on 6/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
