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$6.87 +0.07 (+1.03%)
Closing price 05/30/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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$6.85 -0.02 (-0.29%)
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LNKB vs. PFC, FSUN, ML, TRIN, AMAL, CNOB, SBSI, CNCK, FMBH, and BHRB

Should you be buying LINKBANCORP stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LINKBANCORP include Premier Financial (PFC), Firstsun Capital Bancorp (FSUN), MoneyLion (ML), Trinity Capital (TRIN), Amalgamated Financial (AMAL), ConnectOne Bancorp (CNOB), Southside Bancshares (SBSI), Coincheck Group (CNCK), First Mid Bancshares (FMBH), and Burke & Herbert Financial Services (BHRB). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.

LINKBANCORP vs.

Premier Financial (NASDAQ:PFC) and LINKBANCORP (NASDAQ:LNKB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability and earnings.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Premier Financial$243.59M4.13$71.40M$1.9914.09
LINKBANCORP$110.14M2.33$26.21M$0.967.16

Premier Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. LINKBANCORP pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Premier Financial pays out 62.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. LINKBANCORP pays out 31.3% 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.

Premier Financial has a net margin of 16.12% compared to LINKBANCORP's net margin of 15.64%. LINKBANCORP's return on equity of 9.89% beat Premier Financial's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Premier Financial16.12% 7.66% 0.87%
LINKBANCORP 15.64%9.89%0.95%

Premier Financial has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LINKBANCORP has a beta of 0.49, meaning that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Premier Financial received 9 more outperform votes than LINKBANCORP when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 50.00% of users gave LINKBANCORP an outperform vote while only 38.89% of users gave Premier Financial an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Premier FinancialOutperform Votes
14
38.89%
Underperform Votes
22
61.11%
LINKBANCORPOutperform Votes
5
50.00%
Underperform Votes
5
50.00%

66.1% of Premier Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.5% of LINKBANCORP shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Premier Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 37.5% of LINKBANCORP shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

LINKBANCORP has a consensus target price of $8.75, indicating a potential upside of 27.37%. Given LINKBANCORP's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe LINKBANCORP is more favorable than Premier Financial.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Premier Financial
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
LINKBANCORP
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

In the previous week, LINKBANCORP had 8 more articles in the media than Premier Financial. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for LINKBANCORP and 0 mentions for Premier Financial. LINKBANCORP's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Premier Financial's score of 0.00 indicating that LINKBANCORP is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Premier Financial Neutral
LINKBANCORP Positive

Summary

Premier Financial and LINKBANCORP tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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LNKB vs. The Competition

MetricLINKBANCORPState commercial banks IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$254.22M$3.27B$11.58B$8.40B
Dividend Yield4.40%3.77%5.53%4.17%
P/E Ratio9.8124.0822.3119.78
Price / Sales2.333.0926.60134.13
Price / Cash35.2910.6317.6234.64
Price / Book0.961.192.784.50
Net Income$26.21M$372.21M$1.04B$248.20M
7 Day Performance-0.15%1.06%0.65%1.00%
1 Month Performance-2.14%3.31%3.57%8.02%
1 Year Performance7.51%18.29%535.42%8.86%

LINKBANCORP Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LNKB
LINKBANCORP
4.7546 of 5 stars
$6.87
+1.0%
$8.75
+27.4%
+5.2%$254.22M$110.14M9.81110News Coverage
Positive News
Short Interest ↓
PFC
Premier Financial
N/A$28.04
flat
N/AN/A$1.00B$243.59M14.091,023
FSUN
Firstsun Capital Bancorp
3.4258 of 5 stars
$35.39
-0.6%
$46.00
+30.0%
N/A$985.01M$380.04M11.491,176Positive News
ML
MoneyLion
0.5433 of 5 stars
$85.90
flat
$90.40
+5.2%
N/A$972.39M$545.91M390.45560
TRIN
Trinity Capital
2.0817 of 5 stars
$14.47
+0.6%
$15.13
+4.5%
-1.8%$935.50M$190.27M8.4640Positive News
AMAL
Amalgamated Financial
3.2387 of 5 stars
$29.57
-0.2%
$36.50
+23.4%
+20.5%$904.55M$319.77M8.57380News Coverage
Positive News
CNOB
ConnectOne Bancorp
4.6112 of 5 stars
$22.79
+0.7%
$28.50
+25.1%
+22.1%$876.73M$270.12M12.88520News Coverage
Positive News
SBSI
Southside Bancshares
N/A$27.99
-0.5%
N/AN/A$845.69M$258.81M9.62810High Trading Volume
CNCK
Coincheck Group
2.3394 of 5 stars
$6.51
-12.0%
$10.00
+53.6%
N/A$844.35M$383.33B0.00N/APositive News
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
FMBH
First Mid Bancshares
2.8339 of 5 stars
$34.97
-0.6%
$43.83
+25.3%
+12.4%$838.90M$322.32M10.631,070Positive News
BHRB
Burke & Herbert Financial Services
3.677 of 5 stars
$55.38
-0.4%
$73.00
+31.8%
+10.9%$830.98M$312.60M23.08850Positive News
Insider Trade
Short Interest ↑

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This page (NASDAQ:LNKB) was last updated on 5/31/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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