PNP vs. VBNK, WFC, PTS, WED, BITF, ML, 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), Wall Financial (WFC), Points.com (PTS), Westaim (WED), Bitfarms (BITF), Millennial Lithium (ML), 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. Its Competitors
Pinetree Capital (TSE:PNP) and VersaBank (TSE:VBNK) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
In the previous week, VersaBank had 4 more articles in the media than Pinetree Capital. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for VersaBank and 1 mentions for Pinetree Capital. Pinetree Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat VersaBank's score of -0.19 indicating that Pinetree Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Pinetree Capital received 69 more outperform votes than VersaBank when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.00% of users gave VersaBank an outperform vote while only 65.77% of users gave Pinetree Capital an outperform vote.
Pinetree Capital has a beta of 0.6, indicating that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, VersaBank has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
VersaBank has a consensus price target of C$19.00, suggesting a potential upside of 24.18%. Given VersaBank's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe VersaBank is more favorable than Pinetree Capital.
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.
6.0% of Pinetree Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.6% of VersaBank shares are owned by institutional investors. 43.4% of Pinetree Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 38.8% of VersaBank shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
VersaBank beats Pinetree Capital on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of TSE 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.
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This page (TSE:PNP) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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