PGC vs. EFSC, OFG, CHCO, FBNC, FCF, LKFN, SRCE, GABC, STBA, and NBHC
Should you be buying Peapack-Gladstone Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Peapack-Gladstone Financial include Enterprise Financial Services (EFSC), OFG Bancorp (OFG), City (CHCO), First Bancorp (FBNC), First Commonwealth Financial (FCF), Lakeland Financial (LKFN), 1st Source (SRCE), German American Bancorp (GABC), S&T Bancorp (STBA), and National Bank (NBHC). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Peapack-Gladstone Financial vs.
Peapack-Gladstone Financial (NASDAQ:PGC) and Enterprise Financial Services (NASDAQ:EFSC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and risk.
Enterprise Financial Services has higher revenue and earnings than Peapack-Gladstone Financial. Enterprise Financial Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Peapack-Gladstone Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Peapack-Gladstone Financial currently has a consensus target price of $37.33, suggesting a potential upside of 39.69%. Enterprise Financial Services has a consensus target price of $64.33, suggesting a potential upside of 23.32%. Given Peapack-Gladstone Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Peapack-Gladstone Financial is more favorable than Enterprise Financial Services.
In the previous week, Peapack-Gladstone Financial had 1 more articles in the media than Enterprise Financial Services. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Peapack-Gladstone Financial and 7 mentions for Enterprise Financial Services. Enterprise Financial Services' average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Peapack-Gladstone Financial's score of 0.72 indicating that Enterprise Financial Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Enterprise Financial Services received 96 more outperform votes than Peapack-Gladstone Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.54% of users gave Peapack-Gladstone Financial an outperform vote while only 57.49% of users gave Enterprise Financial Services an outperform vote.
Peapack-Gladstone Financial has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enterprise Financial Services has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Enterprise Financial Services has a net margin of 20.12% compared to Peapack-Gladstone Financial's net margin of 8.11%. Enterprise Financial Services' return on equity of 10.94% beat Peapack-Gladstone Financial's return on equity.
72.8% of Peapack-Gladstone Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of Enterprise Financial Services shares are held by institutional investors. 7.6% of Peapack-Gladstone Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Enterprise Financial Services shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Peapack-Gladstone Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Enterprise Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Peapack-Gladstone Financial pays out 11.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Enterprise Financial Services pays out 23.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Enterprise Financial Services has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years. Enterprise Financial Services is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Enterprise Financial Services beats Peapack-Gladstone Financial on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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