DCOM vs. BRKL, PFC, HTBI, NFBK, KRNY, WD, WSFS, SMPL, NYCB, and WAFD
Should you be buying Dime Community Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dime Community Bancshares include Brookline Bancorp (BRKL), Premier Financial (PFC), HomeTrust Bancshares (HTBI), Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NFBK), Kearny Financial (KRNY), Walker & Dunlop (WD), WSFS Financial (WSFS), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), New York Community Bancorp (NYCB), and WaFd (WAFD).
Dime Community Bancshares (NASDAQ:DCOM) and Brookline Bancorp (NASDAQ:BRKL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, dividends and institutional ownership.
75.3% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.9% of Brookline Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.1% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Brookline Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Brookline Bancorp has a net margin of 12.04% compared to Dime Community Bancshares' net margin of 9.98%. Dime Community Bancshares' return on equity of 6.58% beat Brookline Bancorp's return on equity.
Brookline Bancorp received 5 more outperform votes than Dime Community Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.89% of users gave Brookline Bancorp an outperform vote while only 49.43% of users gave Dime Community Bancshares an outperform vote.
Dime Community Bancshares has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookline Bancorp has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Dime Community Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Brookline Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Dime Community Bancshares pays out 56.2% 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.
Dime Community Bancshares presently has a consensus price target of $27.25, indicating a potential upside of 7.20%. Brookline Bancorp has a consensus price target of $11.25, indicating a potential upside of 7.14%. Given Dime Community Bancshares' higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Dime Community Bancshares is more favorable than Brookline Bancorp.
Dime Community Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than Brookline Bancorp. Brookline 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.
In the previous week, Dime Community Bancshares had 6 more articles in the media than Brookline Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Dime Community Bancshares and 12 mentions for Brookline Bancorp. Brookline Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Dime Community Bancshares' score of 0.42 indicating that Brookline Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Dime Community Bancshares beats Brookline Bancorp on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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