DCOM vs. BANC, NWBI, WAFD, WSFS, NIC, FBMS, AMTB, CASH, BFC, and SASR
Should you be buying Dime Community Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dime Community Bancshares include Banc of California (BANC), Northwest Bancshares (NWBI), Washington Federal (WAFD), WSFS Financial (WSFS), Nicolet Bankshares (NIC), First Bancshares (FBMS), Amerant Bancorp (AMTB), Pathward Financial (CASH), Bank First (BFC), and Sandy Spring Bancorp (SASR). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
Dime Community Bancshares vs.
Dime Community Bancshares (NASDAQ:DCOM) and Banc of California (NYSE:BANC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and profitability.
In the previous week, Banc of California had 4 more articles in the media than Dime Community Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Banc of California and 1 mentions for Dime Community Bancshares. Dime Community Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Banc of California's score of 0.62 indicating that Dime Community Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Dime Community Bancshares currently has a consensus target price of $35.33, indicating a potential upside of 42.53%. Banc of California has a consensus target price of $20.33, indicating a potential upside of 50.73%. Given Banc of California's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Banc of California is more favorable than Dime Community Bancshares.
Banc of California received 98 more outperform votes than Dime Community Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.42% of users gave Banc of California an outperform vote while only 51.50% of users gave Dime Community Bancshares an outperform vote.
Dime Community Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Banc of California pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Dime Community Bancshares pays out 25.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Banc of California pays out 21.3% 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.
Dime Community Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than Banc of California. Dime Community Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Banc of California, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dime Community Bancshares has a net margin of 31.96% compared to Banc of California's net margin of 31.00%. Dime Community Bancshares' return on equity of 14.90% beat Banc of California's return on equity.
Dime Community Bancshares has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Banc of California has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
72.4% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.5% of Banc of California shares are held by institutional investors. 15.3% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.3% of Banc of California shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Dime Community Bancshares and Banc of California tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding DCOM and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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