PGC vs. ESQ, VBNK, BLX, NTB, DHIL, MUA, NQP, THFF, IVR, and FRGE
Should you be buying Peapack-Gladstone Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Peapack-Gladstone Financial include Esquire Financial (ESQ), VersaBank (VBNK), Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S. A. (BLX), Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son (NTB), Diamond Hill Investment Group (DHIL), BlackRock MuniAssets Fund (MUA), Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund (NQP), First Financial (THFF), Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR), and Forge Global (FRGE). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Peapack-Gladstone Financial (NASDAQ:PGC) and Esquire Financial (NASDAQ:ESQ) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and analyst recommendations.
Peapack-Gladstone Financial presently has a consensus target price of $30.50, suggesting a potential upside of 26.40%. Esquire Financial has a consensus target price of $61.00, suggesting a potential upside of 30.90%. Given Esquire Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Esquire Financial is more favorable than Peapack-Gladstone Financial.
Peapack-Gladstone Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Esquire Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Peapack-Gladstone Financial pays out 7.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Esquire Financial pays out 12.2% 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.
Peapack-Gladstone Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Esquire Financial. Peapack-Gladstone Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Esquire Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Peapack-Gladstone Financial has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Esquire Financial has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Esquire Financial has a net margin of 33.72% compared to Peapack-Gladstone Financial's net margin of 12.94%. Esquire Financial's return on equity of 20.76% beat Peapack-Gladstone Financial's return on equity.
Esquire Financial received 7 more outperform votes than Peapack-Gladstone Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.06% of users gave Peapack-Gladstone Financial an outperform vote while only 57.66% of users gave Esquire Financial an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Esquire Financial had 17 more articles in the media than Peapack-Gladstone Financial. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Esquire Financial and 1 mentions for Peapack-Gladstone Financial. Peapack-Gladstone Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Esquire Financial's score of -0.42 indicating that Peapack-Gladstone Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
72.8% of Peapack-Gladstone Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.7% of Esquire Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.6% of Peapack-Gladstone Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 20.4% of Esquire Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Esquire Financial beats Peapack-Gladstone Financial on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get Peapack-Gladstone Financial News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for PGC and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding PGC and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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.
Peapack-Gladstone Financial Competitors List
Related Companies and Tools
