PFIS vs. BCAL, FDBC, FISI, FNLC, SFST, PLBC, GNTY, SMBK, FFNW, and ESSA
Should you be buying Peoples Financial Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Peoples Financial Services include Southern California Bancorp (BCAL), Fidelity D & D Bancorp (FDBC), Financial Institutions (FISI), First Bancorp (FNLC), Southern First Bancshares (SFST), Plumas Bancorp (PLBC), Guaranty Bancshares (GNTY), SmartFinancial (SMBK), First Financial Northwest (FFNW), and ESSA Bancorp (ESSA).
Southern California Bancorp (NASDAQ:BCAL) and Peoples Financial Services (NASDAQ:PFIS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and profitability.
Peoples Financial Services has higher revenue and earnings than Southern California Bancorp. Peoples Financial Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Southern California Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
55.4% of Southern California Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.7% of Peoples Financial Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 35.9% of Southern California Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of Peoples Financial Services shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Southern California Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than Peoples Financial Services. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Southern California Bancorp and 0 mentions for Peoples Financial Services. Southern California Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Peoples Financial Services' score of 0.00 indicating that Peoples Financial Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Peoples Financial Services received 106 more outperform votes than Southern California Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.32% of users gave Peoples Financial Services an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Southern California Bancorp an outperform vote.
Southern California Bancorp has a net margin of 20.42% compared to Southern California Bancorp's net margin of 16.70%. Peoples Financial Services' return on equity of 9.35% beat Southern California Bancorp's return on equity.
Summary
Southern California Bancorp beats Peoples Financial Services on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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