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Franklin Financial Services (FRAF) Competitors

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FRAF vs. NBBK, PGY, ESQ, BFST, OSBC, FUFU, EQBK, MCB, IBCP, and SMBC

Should you be buying Franklin Financial Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Franklin Financial Services include NB Bancorp (NBBK), Pagaya Technologies (PGY), Esquire Financial (ESQ), Business First Bancshares (BFST), Old Second Bancorp (OSBC), BitFuFu (FUFU), Equity Bancshares (EQBK), Metropolitan Bank (MCB), Independent Bank (IBCP), and Southern Missouri Bancorp (SMBC). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.

Franklin Financial Services vs.

NB Bancorp (NASDAQ:NBBK) and Franklin Financial Services (NASDAQ:FRAF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
NB Bancorp$177.98M4.04$42.15M$1.1814.56
Franklin Financial Services$69.89M2.46$11.10M$2.4915.55

24.8% of Franklin Financial Services shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of NB Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of Franklin Financial Services shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

NB Bancorp has a net margin of 13.86% compared to Franklin Financial Services' net margin of 9.64%. Franklin Financial Services' return on equity of 7.91% beat NB Bancorp's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
NB Bancorp13.86% 6.04% 0.93%
Franklin Financial Services 9.64%7.91%0.54%

NB Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $22.00, indicating a potential upside of 28.09%. Given NB Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe NB Bancorp is more favorable than Franklin Financial Services.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
NB Bancorp
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Franklin Financial Services
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

NB Bancorp received 3 more outperform votes than Franklin Financial Services when rated by MarketBeat users.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
NB BancorpOutperform Votes
3
100.00%
Underperform Votes
No Votes
Franklin Financial ServicesN/AN/A

NB Bancorp has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Franklin Financial Services has a beta of 0.18, indicating that its share price is 82% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, NB Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than Franklin Financial Services. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for NB Bancorp and 7 mentions for Franklin Financial Services. NB Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Franklin Financial Services' score of 0.53 indicating that NB Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
NB Bancorp
3 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Franklin Financial Services
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

NB Bancorp beats Franklin Financial Services on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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FRAF vs. The Competition

MetricFranklin Financial ServicesState commercial banks IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$171.87M$3.08B$11.12B$7.96B
Dividend Yield3.25%3.86%5.77%4.23%
P/E Ratio15.5523.5822.1218.55
Price / Sales2.463.0026.10103.38
Price / Cash9.0210.6317.6034.62
Price / Book1.281.162.664.25
Net Income$11.10M$372.21M$1.03B$248.27M
7 Day Performance-2.54%0.54%0.78%1.28%
1 Month Performance9.97%-0.68%-0.19%3.75%
1 Year Performance31.22%17.32%538.52%5.31%

Franklin Financial Services Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FRAF
Franklin Financial Services
1.8197 of 5 stars
$38.71
+0.3%
N/A+27.5%$171.87M$69.89M15.55280Earnings Report
News Coverage
NBBK
NB Bancorp
4.051 of 5 stars
$16.30
-0.7%
$22.00
+35.0%
+17.3%$682.04M$172.73M15.23342Short Interest ↓
Positive News
PGY
Pagaya Technologies
4.0914 of 5 stars
$8.98
-5.0%
$20.61
+129.5%
+12.6%$676.18M$1.00B-1.63800Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Gap Down
ESQ
Esquire Financial
2.4993 of 5 stars
$79.17
-1.7%
$88.00
+11.2%
+76.2%$667.56M$124.82M15.34110Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
News Coverage
BFST
Business First Bancshares
4.085 of 5 stars
$22.48
-1.1%
$31.50
+40.1%
+14.2%$664.78M$270.37M9.95750Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Revision
OSBC
Old Second Bancorp
3.7904 of 5 stars
$14.68
-0.7%
$20.90
+42.4%
+15.3%$661.29M$279.90M7.85890Analyst Revision
FUFU
BitFuFu
3.3553 of 5 stars
$4.00
-7.4%
$7.00
+75.0%
+19.8%$652.43M$463.33M11.4329Gap Up
EQBK
Equity Bancshares
3.3404 of 5 stars
$36.72
+0.7%
$46.60
+26.9%
+15.6%$642.93M$225.03M9.23700Positive News
MCB
Metropolitan Bank
3.3971 of 5 stars
$56.05
+2.6%
$78.13
+39.4%
+56.3%$629.16M$276.91M9.47240Insider Trade
IBCP
Independent Bank
3.1742 of 5 stars
$29.99
-0.4%
$39.17
+30.6%
+22.8%$628.98M$215.80M9.49920Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Analyst Revision
Gap Up
SMBC
Southern Missouri Bancorp
4.3433 of 5 stars
$49.47
+0.5%
$70.00
+41.5%
+31.3%$591.61M$171.80M10.80540Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↑

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