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
Peoples Financial Services (NASDAQ:PFIS) and Nicolet Bankshares (NYSE:NIC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.
Peoples Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $2.47 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Nicolet Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. 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. Nicolet Bankshares pays out 15.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Peoples Financial Services has raised its dividend for 8 consecutive years and Nicolet Bankshares has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Peoples Financial Services is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Peoples Financial Services has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nicolet Bankshares has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
Peoples Financial Services currently has a consensus target price of $53.00, suggesting a potential downside of 0.75%. Nicolet Bankshares has a consensus target price of $119.25, suggesting a potential downside of 9.34%. Given Peoples Financial Services' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Peoples Financial Services is more favorable than Nicolet Bankshares.
In the previous week, Nicolet Bankshares had 4 more articles in the media than Peoples Financial Services. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Nicolet Bankshares and 0 mentions for Peoples Financial Services. Peoples Financial Services' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Nicolet Bankshares' score of 0.78 indicating that Peoples Financial Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
31.7% of Peoples Financial Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.1% of Nicolet Bankshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.0% of Peoples Financial Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.4% of Nicolet Bankshares shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Nicolet Bankshares beats Peoples Financial Services on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:PFIS) was last updated on 7/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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