PFC vs. DCOM, BRKL, OCFC, HTBI, NFBK, TCBI, FIBK, CATY, FHB, and BOH
Should you be buying Premier Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Premier Financial include Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM), Brookline Bancorp (BRKL), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), HomeTrust Bancshares (HTBI), Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NFBK), Texas Capital Bancshares (TCBI), First Interstate BancSystem (FIBK), Cathay General Bancorp (CATY), First Hawaiian (FHB), and Bank of Hawaii (BOH). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Dime Community Bancshares (NASDAQ:DCOM) and Premier Financial (NASDAQ:PFC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability and institutional ownership.
Premier Financial has a net margin of 23.67% compared to Premier Financial's net margin of 11.46%. Dime Community Bancshares' return on equity of 9.12% beat Premier Financial's return on equity.
Dime Community Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Premier Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. Dime Community Bancshares pays out 56.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Premier Financial pays out 40.0% 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. Dime Community Bancshares has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Premier Financial has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years. Premier Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
75.3% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.1% of Premier Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 9.1% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Premier Financial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Dime Community Bancshares has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Premier Financial has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Dime Community Bancshares received 199 more outperform votes than Premier Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 49.31% of users gave Dime Community Bancshares an outperform vote while only 40.00% of users gave Premier Financial an outperform vote.
Premier Financial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Dime Community Bancshares. Premier Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dime Community Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Premier Financial had 2 more articles in the media than Dime Community Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Premier Financial and 3 mentions for Dime Community Bancshares. Premier Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Dime Community Bancshares' score of 0.49 indicating that Dime Community Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Dime Community Bancshares currently has a consensus price target of $26.83, suggesting a potential upside of 45.28%. Premier Financial has a consensus price target of $22.50, suggesting a potential upside of 14.16%. Given Premier Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Dime Community Bancshares is more favorable than Premier Financial.
Summary
Premier Financial beats Dime Community Bancshares on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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