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Flushing Financial (FFIC) Competitors

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$12.24 -0.47 (-3.70%)
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FFIC vs. NWBI, BHLB, DCOM, OCFC, BRKL, CFFN, TRST, HIFS, TREE, and NFBK

Should you be buying Flushing Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flushing Financial include Northwest Bancshares (NWBI), Berkshire Hills Bancorp (BHLB), Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), Brookline Bancorp (BRKL), Capitol Federal Financial (CFFN), TrustCo Bank Corp NY (TRST), Hingham Institution for Savings (HIFS), LendingTree (TREE), and Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NFBK). These companies are all part of the "thrifts & mortgage finance" industry.

Flushing Financial vs.

Northwest Bancshares (NASDAQ:NWBI) and Flushing Financial (NASDAQ:FFIC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, valuation, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, profitability and institutional ownership.

Northwest Bancshares presently has a consensus price target of $15.00, suggesting a potential upside of 21.85%. Flushing Financial has a consensus price target of $16.17, suggesting a potential upside of 32.08%. Given Flushing Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Flushing Financial is more favorable than Northwest Bancshares.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Northwest Bancshares
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Flushing Financial
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33

Northwest Bancshares has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flushing Financial has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Northwest Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than Flushing Financial. Flushing Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northwest Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Northwest Bancshares$545.45M2.88$100.28M$0.9013.68
Flushing Financial$137.32M3.01-$31.33M-$1.42-8.62

Northwest Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. Flushing Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. Northwest Bancshares pays out 88.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Flushing Financial pays out -62.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Flushing Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Northwest Bancshares received 28 more outperform votes than Flushing Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.20% of users gave Northwest Bancshares an outperform vote while only 50.72% of users gave Flushing Financial an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Northwest BancsharesOutperform Votes
274
57.20%
Underperform Votes
205
42.80%
Flushing FinancialOutperform Votes
246
50.72%
Underperform Votes
239
49.28%

Northwest Bancshares has a net margin of 13.26% compared to Flushing Financial's net margin of -6.46%. Northwest Bancshares' return on equity of 8.44% beat Flushing Financial's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Northwest Bancshares13.26% 8.44% 0.92%
Flushing Financial -6.46%3.25%0.24%

66.3% of Northwest Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.1% of Flushing Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Northwest Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.3% of Flushing Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

In the previous week, Flushing Financial had 3 more articles in the media than Northwest Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Flushing Financial and 2 mentions for Northwest Bancshares. Flushing Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.31 beat Northwest Bancshares' score of -0.64 indicating that Flushing Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Northwest Bancshares
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Negative
Flushing Financial
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Flushing Financial beats Northwest Bancshares on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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FFIC vs. The Competition

MetricFlushing FinancialState commercial banks IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$413.43M$3.25B$11.50B$8.39B
Dividend Yield6.77%3.70%5.45%4.10%
P/E Ratio-12.1223.8022.4819.71
Price / Sales3.013.0827.28117.39
Price / Cash13.2610.6317.6234.62
Price / Book0.531.192.794.50
Net Income-$31.33M$372.21M$1.04B$248.18M
7 Day Performance-5.85%-2.49%-0.02%0.20%
1 Month Performance2.77%4.92%6.70%12.37%
1 Year Performance-9.40%16.14%537.71%7.04%

Flushing Financial Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FFIC
Flushing Financial
4.0538 of 5 stars
$12.24
-3.7%
$16.17
+32.1%
-8.7%$413.43M$137.32M-12.12540Positive News
Analyst Revision
NWBI
Northwest Bancshares
3.395 of 5 stars
$12.67
+1.8%
$15.00
+18.4%
+8.8%$1.62B$545.45M16.042,160Gap Up
BHLB
Berkshire Hills Bancorp
4.436 of 5 stars
$26.51
+3.8%
$31.13
+17.4%
+9.3%$1.23B$438.66M18.411,310Positive News
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
DCOM
Dime Community Bancshares
4.0254 of 5 stars
$27.37
+3.0%
$36.88
+34.7%
+30.0%$1.19B$335.95M46.39820Positive News
Gap Up
OCFC
OceanFirst Financial
4.0484 of 5 stars
$17.48
+5.0%
$20.67
+18.2%
+7.2%$1.02B$379.09M10.59960Positive News
Gap Up
BRKL
Brookline Bancorp
4.7295 of 5 stars
$10.98
+4.1%
$15.25
+38.9%
+17.6%$987.76M$359.12M14.26850Positive News
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
CFFN
Capitol Federal Financial
3.6499 of 5 stars
$5.76
+2.3%
$6.50
+12.8%
+7.6%$764.85M$183.58M14.77730Positive News
Gap Up
TRST
TrustCo Bank Corp NY
2.4042 of 5 stars
$32.14
+2.5%
N/A+7.8%$611.30M$175.70M12.51820News Coverage
Dividend Announcement
HIFS
Hingham Institution for Savings
0.747 of 5 stars
$264.00
+1.9%
N/A+44.3%$567.60M$65.85M20.5887Positive News
High Trading Volume
TREE
LendingTree
4.8728 of 5 stars
$39.30
+1.6%
$64.13
+63.2%
-20.4%$531.93M$972.18M-14.561,250
NFBK
Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY)
4.3996 of 5 stars
$11.74
+4.2%
$13.00
+10.7%
+21.2%$501.02M$131.45M16.31400Positive News
Analyst Revision

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This page (NASDAQ:FFIC) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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