FDBC vs. PFIS, CARE, FISI, CBNK, BCAL, FNLC, NEWT, FLIC, SFST, and GNTY
Should you be buying Fidelity D & D Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fidelity D & D Bancorp include Peoples Financial Services (PFIS), Carter Bankshares (CARE), Financial Institutions (FISI), Capital Bancorp (CBNK), Southern California Bancorp (BCAL), First Bancorp (FNLC), NewtekOne (NEWT), First of Long Island (FLIC), Southern First Bancshares (SFST), and Guaranty Bancshares (GNTY). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
Peoples Financial Services (NASDAQ:PFIS) and Fidelity D & D Bancorp (NASDAQ:FDBC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment and profitability.
Peoples Financial Services has higher revenue and earnings than Fidelity D & D Bancorp. Peoples Financial Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fidelity D & D Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fidelity D & D Bancorp has a net margin of 17.30% compared to Fidelity D & D Bancorp's net margin of 16.70%. Peoples Financial Services' return on equity of 13.16% beat Fidelity D & D Bancorp's return on equity.
Fidelity D & D Bancorp received 49 more outperform votes than Peoples Financial Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.12% of users gave Fidelity D & D Bancorp an outperform vote while only 56.32% of users gave Peoples Financial Services an outperform vote.
Peoples Financial Services has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fidelity D & D Bancorp has a beta of 0.64, indicating that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
31.7% of Peoples Financial Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.1% of Fidelity D & D Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.1% of Peoples Financial Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.7% of Fidelity D & D Bancorp shares are owned by 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.
In the previous week, Fidelity D & D Bancorp had 3 more articles in the media than Peoples Financial Services. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Fidelity D & D Bancorp and 1 mentions for Peoples Financial Services. Fidelity D & D Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Peoples Financial Services' score of 0.87 indicating that Peoples Financial Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Peoples Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Fidelity D & D Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Peoples Financial Services pays out 42.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fidelity D & D Bancorp pays out 47.6% 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. Peoples Financial Services has increased its dividend for 7 consecutive years and Fidelity D & D Bancorp has increased its dividend for 9 consecutive years. Peoples Financial Services is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Fidelity D & D Bancorp beats Peoples Financial Services on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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