PFIS vs. FISI, FNLC, FDBC, GNTY, SFST, SASR, OCFC, BFC, FBMS, and AMTB
Should you be buying Peoples Financial Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Peoples Financial Services include Financial Institutions (FISI), First Bancorp (FNLC), Fidelity D & D Bancorp (FDBC), Guaranty Bancshares (GNTY), Southern First Bancshares (SFST), Sandy Spring Bancorp (SASR), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), Bank First (BFC), First Bancshares (FBMS), and Amerant Bancorp (AMTB). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
Financial Institutions (NASDAQ:FISI) and Peoples Financial Services (NASDAQ:PFIS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.
Financial Institutions received 186 more outperform votes than Peoples Financial Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.25% of users gave Financial Institutions an outperform vote while only 55.15% of users gave Peoples Financial Services an outperform vote.
Financial Institutions has higher revenue and earnings than Peoples Financial Services. Financial Institutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Peoples Financial Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Financial Institutions has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Peoples Financial Services has a beta of 0.48, indicating that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Peoples Financial Services had 2 more articles in the media than Financial Institutions. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Peoples Financial Services and 3 mentions for Financial Institutions. Peoples Financial Services' average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Financial Institutions' score of 0.70 indicating that Financial Institutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
60.5% of Financial Institutions shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.7% of Peoples Financial Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of Financial Institutions shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of Peoples Financial Services shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Peoples Financial Services has a net margin of 13.81% compared to Peoples Financial Services' net margin of 11.53%. Peoples Financial Services' return on equity of 9.66% beat Financial Institutions' return on equity.
Financial Institutions presently has a consensus target price of $20.67, suggesting a potential upside of 17.36%. Peoples Financial Services has a consensus target price of $45.00, suggesting a potential upside of 15.41%. Given Peoples Financial Services' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Financial Institutions is more favorable than Peoples Financial Services.
Financial Institutions pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. Peoples Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Financial Institutions pays out 47.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Peoples Financial Services pays out 50.3% 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. Financial Institutions has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years and Peoples Financial Services has raised its dividend for 7 consecutive years. Financial Institutions is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Financial Institutions beats Peoples Financial Services on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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