PFS vs. BRKL, CFFN, NFBK, KRNY, TFSL, HTBI, CLBK, FMAO, BKU, and EBC
Should you be buying Provident Financial Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Provident Financial Services include Brookline Bancorp (BRKL), Capitol Federal Financial (CFFN), Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NFBK), Kearny Financial (KRNY), TFS Financial (TFSL), HomeTrust Bancshares (HTBI), Columbia Financial (CLBK), Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (FMAO), BankUnited (BKU), and Eastern Bankshares (EBC). These companies are all part of the "federal savings institutions" industry.
Brookline Bancorp (NASDAQ:BRKL) and Provident Financial Services (NYSE:PFS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, media sentiment and community ranking.
Brookline Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $11.38, suggesting a potential upside of 21.27%. Provident Financial Services has a consensus price target of $17.50, suggesting a potential upside of 21.02%. Given Provident Financial Services' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Brookline Bancorp is more favorable than Provident Financial Services.
Brookline Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Provident Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. Brookline Bancorp pays out 62.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Provident Financial Services pays out 56.1% 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. Provident Financial Services is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Brookline Bancorp has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Provident Financial Services has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Provident Financial Services has higher revenue and earnings than Brookline Bancorp. Provident Financial Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookline Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Provident Financial Services had 4 more articles in the media than Brookline Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Provident Financial Services and 4 mentions for Brookline Bancorp. Provident Financial Services' average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Brookline Bancorp's score of 0.57 indicating that Brookline Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Provident Financial Services received 67 more outperform votes than Brookline Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.04% of users gave Provident Financial Services an outperform vote while only 58.20% of users gave Brookline Bancorp an outperform vote.
Provident Financial Services has a net margin of 18.46% compared to Provident Financial Services' net margin of 12.31%. Brookline Bancorp's return on equity of 7.88% beat Provident Financial Services' return on equity.
78.9% of Brookline Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.0% of Provident Financial Services shares are held by institutional investors. 2.9% of Brookline Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Provident Financial Services shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Provident Financial Services beats Brookline Bancorp on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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