Peoples Financial Services (PFIS) Stock Forecast, Price & News

1 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Peoples Financial Services in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 hold rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" PFIS shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in PFIS, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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1 brokerages have issued twelve-month price objectives for Peoples Financial Services' stock. Their PFIS share price forecasts range from $56.00 to $56.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $56.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 38.8% from the stock's current price.
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Peoples Financial Services' stock was trading at $51.84 at the start of the year. Since then, PFIS shares have decreased by 22.1% and is now trading at $40.36.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, July 20th 2023.
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Peoples Financial Services Corp. (NASDAQ:PFIS) released its earnings results on Thursday, April, 27th. The financial services provider reported $1.04 EPS for the quarter. The financial services provider earned $26.72 million during the quarter. Peoples Financial Services had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 11.94% and a net margin of 27.07%.

Peoples Financial Services declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, April 28th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, May 31st will be paid a dividend of $0.41 per share on Thursday, June 15th. This represents a $1.64 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 4.06%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, May 30th.
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Peoples Financial Services (NASDAQ:PFIS) pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 4.01%. PFIS has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The company has been increasing its dividend for 7 consecutive years, indicating the company has a new, but growing committment to grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 32.80%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, PFIS will have a dividend payout ratio of 33.95% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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2 employees have rated Peoples Financial Services Chief Executive Officer Craig W. Best on Glassdoor.com. Craig W. Best has an approval rating of 41% among the company's employees. This puts Craig W. Best in the bottom 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Peoples Financial Services trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "PFIS."

Peoples Financial Services' stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (6.29%), Peoples Financial Services CORP. (4.88%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.94%), State Street Corp (1.86%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (1.71%) and Maltese Capital Management LLC (0.96%). Insiders that own company stock include Elisa Z Ramirez, Richard S Lochen Jr, Richard S Lochen, Jr, Sandra Bodnyk, Thomas P Tulaney, William E Aubrey II and William E Aubrey II.
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Shares of PFIS stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of PFIS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $40.36.

Peoples Financial Services (NASDAQ:PFIS) has a market capitalization of $288.57 million and generates $123.18 million in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $38.09 million in net income (profit) each year or $5.00 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 370 workers across the globe.

Peoples Financial Services' mailing address is 150 N WASHINGTON AVE, SCRANTON PA, 18503. The official website for the company is www.psbt.com. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at (570) 346-7741 or via fax at 570-961-3768.