Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. is the bank holding company for Dime Community Bank, a full-service commercial bank serving businesses, individuals and local communities in the New York metropolitan area. The company’s primary markets include Long Island and New York City, with banking offices across Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Nassau County and Suffolk County.

Dime Community Bank provides commercial and residential real estate lending, commercial and industrial loans, construction financing, residential mortgages and consumer loans. Its deposit products include checking, savings, money market and certificate accounts for individuals, businesses and municipalities. The bank also offers treasury management, cash management, online and mobile banking, and other services designed to support commercial customers.

The company traces its banking history to the 19th century and adopted the Dime Community Bancshares name following the combination of Bridge Bancorp and Dime Community Bancshares in 2021. Through its community-banking model, Dime focuses on relationship-based lending and deposit services for small and midsized businesses, professionals, nonprofit organizations and retail customers in the markets it serves.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: $42.87 to $44.23
• 50-Day Range: $38.07 to $42.93
• 52-Week Range: $25.63 to $44.23
• Volume: 101,913 shs
• Average Volume: 318,602 shs
• Market Capitalization: $1.92 billion
• P/E Ratio: 18.41
• Dividend Yield: 2.30%
• Price Target: $45.50
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy

Dime Community Bancshares Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

Dime Community Bancshares scored higher than 75% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 345th out of 844 stocks in the finance sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 2.1 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Moderate Buy

Consensus Rating

Dime Community Bancshares has received a consensus rating of Moderate Buy. The company's average rating score is 2.67, and is based on no strong buy ratings, 4 buy ratings, 2 hold ratings, and no sell ratings.

Upside/Downside

The consensus price target for Dime Community Bancshares is close to its current price, suggesting limited near-term upside or downside.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

Dime Community Bancshares has only been the subject of 2 research reports in the past 90 days.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 3.1 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: 30.07%

Earnings Growth

Earnings for Dime Community Bancshares are expected to grow by 30.07% in the coming year, from $3.06 to $3.98 per share.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of Dime Community Bancshares is 18.37, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 27.09.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of Dime Community Bancshares is 18.37, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Finance sector average P/E ratio of about 21.55.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

Dime Community Bancshares has a P/B Ratio of 1.40. P/B Ratios below 3 indicates that a company is reasonably valued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: N/A
• Short Interest Level: N/A

Short Interest

There is no current short interest data available for DCOM.

Dividend

• Score: 2.5 / 5
• Dividend Strength: Moderate

Dividend Yield

Dime Community Bancshares pays a meaningful dividend of 2.36%, higher than the bottom 25% of all stocks that pay dividends.

Dividend Growth

Dime Community Bancshares has only been increasing its dividend for 2 years.

Dividend Coverage

The dividend payout ratio of Dime Community Bancshares is 32.47%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.

Dividend Sustainability

Based on earnings estimates, Dime Community Bancshares will have a dividend payout ratio of 25.13% next year. This indicates that Dime Community Bancshares will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.

News and Social Media

• Score: 2.6 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.21

News Sentiment

Dime Community Bancshares has a news sentiment score of 0.21. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a lower news sentiment than the 0.61 average news sentiment score of Finance companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 18 news articles for Dime Community Bancshares this week, compared to 3 articles on an average week.

Search Interest

1 people have searched for DCOM on MarketBeat in the last 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 1.7 / 5
• Insider Trading: Selling Shares

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, Dime Community Bancshares insiders have sold more of their company's stock than they have bought. Specifically, they have bought $0.00 in company stock and sold $8,100,891.00 in company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

7.40% of the stock of Dime Community Bancshares is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

75.27% of the stock of Dime Community Bancshares is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

Company Calendar

• Record date for 10/23 Dividend: 10/16/2026
• Ex-Dividend for 10/23 Dividend: 10/16/2026
• Last Earnings: 10/20/2026
• Dividend Payable: 10/23/2026
• Today: 11/04/2026
• Fiscal Year End: 12/31/2026
• Next Earnings (Estimated): 1/20/2027

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: NASDAQ
• Sector: Finance
• Industry: Banks
• Sub-Industry: Regional Banks
• Current Symbol: NASDAQ:DCOM
• CIK: 846617
• Web: www.dime.com
• Phone: (631) 537-1000
• Fax: 631-537-1835
• Employees: 902
• Year Founded: 1864

Price Target and Rating

• Average Price Target for Dime Community Bancshares: $45.50
• High Price Target: $50.00
• Low Price Target: $36.00
• Potential Upside/Downside: +4.6%
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.67
• Research Coverage: 6 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): $3.08
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 18.43
• Forward P/E Ratio: 10.93
• P/E Growth: N/A
• Net Income: $110.68 million
• Net Margins: 15.15%
• Pretax Margin: 21.47%
• Return on Equity: 9.12%
• Return on Assets: 0.83%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 0.57
• Current Ratio: 1.02
• Quick Ratio: 1.02

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: $509.18 million
• Price / Sales: 3.77
• Cash Flow: $3.65 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 11.91
• Book Value: $30.97 per share
• Price / Book: 1.41

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 44,157,000
• Free Float: 40,789,000
• Market Cap: $1.92 billion
• Optionable: Optionable
• Beta: 1.01