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Flushing Financial (FFIC) Competitors

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FFIC vs. NWBI, BHLB, DCOM, OCFC, BRKL, CFFN, TREE, TRST, HIFS, 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), LendingTree (TREE), TrustCo Bank Corp NY (TRST), Hingham Institution for Savings (HIFS), 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 business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, dividends, media sentiment and institutional ownership.

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 50.83% of users gave Flushing Financial an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Northwest BancsharesOutperform Votes
274
57.20%
Underperform Votes
205
42.80%
Flushing FinancialOutperform Votes
246
50.83%
Underperform Votes
238
49.17%

Northwest Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. Flushing Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. Northwest Bancshares pays out 101.3% 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 -87.1% 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 has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flushing Financial has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Northwest Bancshares currently has a consensus target price of $15.00, indicating a potential upside of 20.72%. Flushing Financial has a consensus target price of $16.17, indicating a potential upside of 32.35%. 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 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 owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.1% of Flushing Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Northwest Bancshares shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.3% of Flushing Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

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$520.47M3.04$100.28M$0.7915.73
Flushing Financial$124.74M3.31-$31.33M-$1.01-12.09

In the previous week, Northwest Bancshares had 3 more articles in the media than Flushing Financial. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Northwest Bancshares and 11 mentions for Flushing Financial. Flushing Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Northwest Bancshares' score of 0.70 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
2 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
8 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Flushing Financial
2 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Northwest Bancshares and Flushing Financial tied by winning 10 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$411.40M$3.07B$11.11B$7.94B
Dividend Yield7.18%3.87%5.77%4.23%
P/E Ratio-12.0623.6022.1018.55
Price / Sales3.313.0026.10103.00
Price / Cash13.2610.6317.6034.62
Price / Book0.531.162.664.26
Net Income-$31.33M$372.21M$1.03B$248.39M
7 Day Performance-0.77%0.44%0.75%1.27%
1 Month Performance-3.44%-0.77%-0.20%3.85%
1 Year Performance6.68%17.22%538.49%5.23%

Flushing Financial Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FFIC
Flushing Financial
3.9242 of 5 stars
$12.21
+2.0%
$16.17
+32.4%
+8.6%$412.42M$124.74M-12.09540Earnings Report
Analyst Upgrade
News Coverage
NWBI
Northwest Bancshares
3.8051 of 5 stars
$11.85
+0.9%
$15.00
+26.6%
+16.5%$1.51B$520.47M15.002,160Earnings Report
News Coverage
BHLB
Berkshire Hills Bancorp
4.5346 of 5 stars
$24.92
+1.0%
$31.13
+24.9%
+16.6%$1.16B$438.66M17.311,310Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
DCOM
Dime Community Bancshares
4.2045 of 5 stars
$25.62
flat
$36.88
+43.9%
+41.2%$1.10B$335.95M43.42820Dividend Increase
News Coverage
Positive News
OCFC
OceanFirst Financial
4.0745 of 5 stars
$16.46
-0.5%
$20.67
+25.6%
+12.2%$960.95M$379.81M9.98960Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
BRKL
Brookline Bancorp
4.7535 of 5 stars
$10.39
+1.3%
$15.25
+46.8%
+25.8%$934.68M$359.12M13.49850Short Interest ↓
Positive News
CFFN
Capitol Federal Financial
3.4132 of 5 stars
$5.72
+0.4%
$6.50
+13.6%
+18.9%$759.54M$183.58M14.67730Positive News
TREE
LendingTree
4.582 of 5 stars
$52.11
+1.1%
$65.75
+26.2%
+6.9%$697.96M$900.22M-19.301,250
TRST
TrustCo Bank Corp NY
3.3832 of 5 stars
$30.54
+0.6%
N/A+14.4%$580.87M$175.70M11.88820Positive News
HIFS
Hingham Institution for Savings
1.0238 of 5 stars
$253.53
+1.3%
N/A+47.8%$545.09M$65.85M19.7687Positive News
NFBK
Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY)
3.8515 of 5 stars
$10.15
+1.9%
$12.00
+18.2%
+26.5%$433.16M$127.91M14.10400Analyst Forecast
News Coverage

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