FNLC vs. FDBC, PFIS, SFST, GNTY, LCNB, SASR, PEBO, GABC, LBAI, and SBSI
Should you be buying First Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of First Bancorp include Fidelity D & D Bancorp (FDBC), Peoples Financial Services (PFIS), Southern First Bancshares (SFST), Guaranty Bancshares (GNTY), LCNB (LCNB), Sandy Spring Bancorp (SASR), Peoples Bancorp (PEBO), German American Bancorp (GABC), Lakeland Bancorp (LBAI), and Southside Bancshares (SBSI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Fidelity D & D Bancorp (NASDAQ:FDBC) and First Bancorp (NASDAQ:FNLC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
First Bancorp received 34 more outperform votes than Fidelity D & D Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.12% of users gave Fidelity D & D Bancorp an outperform vote while only 62.30% of users gave First Bancorp an outperform vote.
20.1% of Fidelity D & D Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.4% of First Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.0% of Fidelity D & D Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.0% of First Bancorp 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.
Fidelity D & D Bancorp has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, First Bancorp has a beta of 0.57, meaning that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
First Bancorp has a net margin of 18.41% compared to First Bancorp's net margin of 14.94%. First Bancorp's return on equity of 11.78% beat Fidelity D & D Bancorp's return on equity.
In the previous week, First Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than Fidelity D & D Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for First Bancorp and 2 mentions for Fidelity D & D Bancorp. First Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Fidelity D & D Bancorp's score of 0.53 indicating that Fidelity D & D Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Fidelity D & D Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. First Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Fidelity D & D Bancorp pays out 53.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. First Bancorp pays out 56.5% 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. Fidelity D & D Bancorp has raised its dividend for 9 consecutive years and First Bancorp has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years.
First Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Fidelity D & D Bancorp. First Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fidelity D & D Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Fidelity D & D Bancorp beats First Bancorp on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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