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Peoples Financial Services (PFIS) Competitors

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$53.40 +1.30 (+2.50%)
As of 07/3/2025 01:04 PM Eastern
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PFIS vs. NIC, CASH, HUT, SII, CUBI, PWP, CLBK, MBIN, WULF, and CMPO

Should you be buying Peoples Financial Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Peoples Financial Services include Nicolet Bankshares (NIC), Pathward Financial (CASH), Hut 8 (HUT), Sprott (SII), Customers Bancorp (CUBI), Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP), Columbia Financial (CLBK), Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), TeraWulf (WULF), and CompoSecure (CMPO). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.

Peoples Financial Services vs. Its Competitors

Nicolet Bankshares (NYSE:NIC) and Peoples Financial Services (NASDAQ:PFIS) 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, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability and earnings.

Nicolet Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Peoples Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $2.47 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Nicolet Bankshares pays out 15.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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. Nicolet Bankshares has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Peoples Financial Services has raised its dividend for 8 consecutive years. Peoples Financial Services is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

In the previous week, Nicolet Bankshares had 5 more articles in the media than Peoples Financial Services. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Nicolet Bankshares and 0 mentions for Peoples Financial Services. Nicolet Bankshares' average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Peoples Financial Services' score of 0.50 indicating that Nicolet Bankshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Nicolet Bankshares Positive
Peoples Financial Services Positive

43.1% of Nicolet Bankshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.7% of Peoples Financial Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.4% of Nicolet Bankshares shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of Peoples Financial Services shares are owned by company 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.

Nicolet Bankshares has higher revenue and earnings than Peoples Financial Services. Nicolet Bankshares 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
Nicolet Bankshares$356.32M5.57$124.06M$8.2915.87
Peoples Financial Services$229.80M2.32$8.50M$2.1325.07

Nicolet Bankshares presently has a consensus target price of $119.25, suggesting a potential downside of 9.34%. Peoples Financial Services has a consensus target price of $53.00, suggesting a potential downside of 0.75%. Given Peoples Financial Services' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Peoples Financial Services is more favorable than Nicolet Bankshares.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Nicolet Bankshares
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.25
Peoples Financial Services
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

Nicolet Bankshares has a net margin of 24.31% compared to Peoples Financial Services' net margin of 7.83%. Nicolet Bankshares' return on equity of 11.08% beat Peoples Financial Services' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Nicolet Bankshares24.31% 11.08% 1.46%
Peoples Financial Services 7.83%10.37%0.96%

Nicolet Bankshares has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Peoples Financial Services has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Nicolet Bankshares beats Peoples Financial Services on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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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$520.77M$863.00M$12.04B$8.95B
Dividend Yield4.74%3.15%5.57%4.08%
P/E Ratio25.0719.4020.0720.24
Price / Sales2.322.0725.59118.25
Price / Cash17.0249.0521.5057.47
Price / Book1.141.132.285.67
Net Income$8.50M$53.76M$1.00B$248.47M
7 Day Performance7.66%4.36%2.19%3.32%
1 Month Performance12.66%8.34%4.44%5.20%
1 Year Performance22.14%28.16%540.82%21.35%

Peoples Financial Services Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PFIS
Peoples Financial Services
0.9875 of 5 stars
$53.40
+2.5%
$53.00
-0.7%
+22.1%$520.77M$229.80M25.07400
NIC
Nicolet Bankshares
2.9335 of 5 stars
$120.59
+3.3%
$119.25
-1.1%
+62.9%$1.76B$520.63M14.25860News Coverage
CASH
Pathward Financial
2.6445 of 5 stars
$76.17
+4.2%
$92.00
+20.8%
+44.0%$1.74B$775.94M10.281,244
HUT
Hut 8
2.5071 of 5 stars
$15.89
-4.9%
$25.76
+62.1%
+36.0%$1.74B$162.38M0.00219Trending News
Options Volume
SII
Sprott
1.0018 of 5 stars
$64.84
-0.9%
N/A+63.1%$1.69B$178.65M33.77170Positive News
CUBI
Customers Bancorp
1.6164 of 5 stars
$53.90
+3.7%
$64.00
+18.7%
+36.3%$1.64B$1.39B13.58640News Coverage
PWP
Perella Weinberg Partners
0.9797 of 5 stars
$18.65
+4.8%
$23.00
+23.3%
+30.8%$1.57B$878.04M13.58600Gap Up
CLBK
Columbia Financial
0.3138 of 5 stars
$14.35
+3.2%
$16.00
+11.5%
+4.3%$1.46B$489.17M-717.50750Positive News
MBIN
Merchants Bancorp
3.9969 of 5 stars
$32.11
+2.3%
$47.50
+47.9%
-12.5%$1.44B$1.45B5.90480
WULF
TeraWulf
3.7294 of 5 stars
$3.57
-4.5%
$7.89
+121.0%
+0.7%$1.44B$140.05M0.006
CMPO
CompoSecure
0.824 of 5 stars
$14.05
+0.6%
$16.19
+15.2%
+110.7%$1.43B$420.57M13.181,007

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This page (NASDAQ:PFIS) was last updated on 7/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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