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$49.89 -0.52 (-1.03%)
Closing price 07/25/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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PFIS vs. CCNE, CTBI, FCBC, FMBH, GSBC, MBWM, OBK, STEL, UVSP, and TMP

Should you be buying Peoples Financial Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Peoples Financial Services include CNB Financial (CCNE), Community Trust Bancorp (CTBI), First Community Bancshares (FCBC), First Mid Bancshares (FMBH), Great Southern Bancorp (GSBC), Mercantile Bank (MBWM), Origin Bancorp (OBK), Stellarone (STEL), Univest Corporation of Pennsylvania (UVSP), and Tompkins Financial (TMP). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

Peoples Financial Services vs. Its Competitors

Peoples Financial Services (NASDAQ:PFIS) and CNB Financial (NASDAQ:CCNE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability and dividends.

Peoples Financial Services has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CNB Financial has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, CNB Financial had 4 more articles in the media than Peoples Financial Services. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for CNB Financial and 5 mentions for Peoples Financial Services. CNB Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Peoples Financial Services' score of 0.58 indicating that CNB Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Peoples Financial Services
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
CNB Financial
1 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Peoples Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $2.47 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. CNB Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Peoples Financial Services pays out 116.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CNB Financial pays out 30.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Peoples Financial Services has increased its dividend for 8 consecutive years and CNB Financial has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Peoples Financial Services is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Peoples Financial Services$229.80M2.17$8.50M$2.1323.42
CNB Financial$364.58M1.38$54.58M$2.3810.09

Peoples Financial Services currently has a consensus price target of $53.00, suggesting a potential upside of 6.23%. CNB Financial has a consensus price target of $27.75, suggesting a potential upside of 15.58%. Given CNB Financial's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe CNB Financial is more favorable than Peoples Financial Services.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Peoples Financial Services
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50
CNB Financial
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

CNB Financial has a net margin of 14.56% compared to Peoples Financial Services' net margin of 7.83%. Peoples Financial Services' return on equity of 10.37% beat CNB Financial's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Peoples Financial Services7.83% 10.37% 0.96%
CNB Financial 14.56%9.90%0.89%

31.7% of Peoples Financial Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.4% of CNB Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 8.0% of Peoples Financial Services shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of CNB Financial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

CNB Financial beats Peoples Financial Services on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding PFIS and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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PFIS vs. The Competition

MetricPeoples Financial ServicesBANKS IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$503.87M$877.79M$12.28B$9.50B
Dividend Yield4.90%3.14%5.54%4.01%
P/E Ratio23.4216.6819.0320.05
Price / Sales2.172.3126.1090.07
Price / Cash16.4748.6121.6358.56
Price / Book1.061.112.205.87
Net Income$8.50M$54.19M$997.25M$258.55M
7 Day Performance-3.24%-0.83%0.60%3.74%
1 Month Performance0.24%3.20%3.44%11.75%
1 Year Performance-1.19%9.06%536.57%18.03%

Peoples Financial Services Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PFIS
Peoples Financial Services
0.8052 of 5 stars
$49.89
-1.0%
$53.00
+6.2%
-0.5%$503.87M$229.80M23.42400News Coverage
Dividend Announcement
CCNE
CNB Financial
4.7468 of 5 stars
$24.28
+2.5%
$26.25
+8.1%
-8.1%$509.37M$224.79M10.42760Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
CTBI
Community Trust Bancorp
3.6305 of 5 stars
$55.38
+1.4%
$57.00
+2.9%
+9.1%$1.00B$256.00M11.56980Positive News
Dividend Increase
FCBC
First Community Bancshares
2.9348 of 5 stars
$41.26
+2.3%
N/A-13.1%$754.23M$185.53M14.90630News Coverage
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
FMBH
First Mid Bancshares
3.5446 of 5 stars
$39.40
+1.3%
$43.83
+11.3%
-1.3%$945.21M$453.67M11.731,198News Coverage
Earnings Report
Upcoming Earnings
Dividend Increase
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
GSBC
Great Southern Bancorp
2.0889 of 5 stars
$61.61
+2.3%
$59.50
-3.4%
-8.2%$706.54M$224.01M11.001,108Positive News
High Trading Volume
MBWM
Mercantile Bank
4.0323 of 5 stars
$49.44
+2.1%
$52.83
+6.9%
-4.3%$802.91M$361.89M10.26670Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Increase
Analyst Forecast
OBK
Origin Bancorp
3.4257 of 5 stars
$37.96
+1.8%
$42.20
+11.2%
+8.4%$1.18B$358.20M15.431,010News Coverage
Positive News
Dividend Announcement
STEL
Stellarone
1.755 of 5 stars
$31.18
+12.4%
$29.00
-7.0%
+13.9%$1.55B$625.45M14.011,025News Coverage
Earnings Report
Gap Up
UVSP
Univest Corporation of Pennsylvania
3.1835 of 5 stars
$32.02
+1.1%
$29.00
-9.4%
+4.3%$924.74M$500.41M11.99970News Coverage
Positive News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
TMP
Tompkins Financial
2.7371 of 5 stars
$66.82
+1.2%
$69.00
+3.3%
N/A$964.21M$435.70M13.001,011News Coverage
Dividend Announcement

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This page (NASDAQ:PFIS) was last updated on 7/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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