DCOM vs. ABCB, BUSE, CNOB, CVBF, EBC, FRME, OCFC, SBCF, TOWN, and WSFS
Should you be buying Dime Community Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dime Community Bancshares include Ameris Bancorp (ABCB), First Busey (BUSE), ConnectOne Bancorp (CNOB), CVB Financial (CVBF), Eastern Bankshares (EBC), First Merchants (FRME), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida (SBCF), Towne Bank (TOWN), and WSFS Financial (WSFS). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Dime Community Bancshares vs. Its Competitors
Ameris Bancorp (NASDAQ:ABCB) and Dime Community Bancshares (NASDAQ:DCOM) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk and earnings.
91.6% of Ameris Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.3% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.5% of Ameris Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.1% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ameris Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $72.14, suggesting a potential downside of 3.48%. Dime Community Bancshares has a consensus price target of $36.88, suggesting a potential upside of 22.18%. Given Dime Community Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Dime Community Bancshares is more favorable than Ameris Bancorp.
Ameris Bancorp has a net margin of 21.46% compared to Dime Community Bancshares' net margin of 6.74%. Ameris Bancorp's return on equity of 9.57% beat Dime Community Bancshares' return on equity.
Ameris Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Dime Community Bancshares. Ameris 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.
Ameris Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Dime Community Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Ameris Bancorp pays out 14.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Dime Community Bancshares pays out 119.0% 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. Dime Community Bancshares is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Dime Community Bancshares had 4 more articles in the media than Ameris Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Dime Community Bancshares and 4 mentions for Ameris Bancorp. Ameris Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Dime Community Bancshares' score of 0.70 indicating that Ameris Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ameris Bancorp has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dime Community Bancshares has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Ameris Bancorp beats Dime Community Bancshares on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:DCOM) was last updated on 9/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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