PNP vs. VBNK, BITF, PTS, WED, ML, WFC, GRN, CARE, CFW, and HIVE
Should you be buying Pinetree Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pinetree Capital include VersaBank (VBNK), Bitfarms (BITF), Points.com (PTS), Westaim (WED), Millennial Lithium (ML), Wall Financial (WFC), Greenlane Renewables Inc. (GRN.V) (GRN), Dialogue Health Technologies (CARE), Calfrac Well Services (CFW), and HIVE Digital Technologies (HIVE). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Pinetree Capital vs.
VersaBank (TSE:VBNK) and Pinetree Capital (TSE:PNP) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
VersaBank has higher revenue and earnings than Pinetree Capital. Pinetree Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than VersaBank, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, VersaBank had 2 more articles in the media than Pinetree Capital. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for VersaBank and 2 mentions for Pinetree Capital. Pinetree Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat VersaBank's score of 0.26 indicating that Pinetree Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
21.6% of VersaBank shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.0% of Pinetree Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 38.8% of VersaBank shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 43.4% of Pinetree Capital 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.
VersaBank presently has a consensus target price of C$17.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.18%. Given VersaBank's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe VersaBank is more favorable than Pinetree Capital.
Pinetree Capital received 70 more outperform votes than VersaBank when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave VersaBank an outperform vote while only 65.77% of users gave Pinetree Capital an outperform vote.
Pinetree Capital has a net margin of 218.56% compared to VersaBank's net margin of 19.94%. Pinetree Capital's return on equity of 34.80% beat VersaBank's return on equity.
VersaBank has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pinetree Capital has a beta of 0.6, indicating that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
VersaBank beats Pinetree Capital on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:PNP) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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