DCOM vs. RDN, SMPL, TFSL, WD, WSFS, WAFD, BANC, PFS, AGM, and NWBI
Should you be buying Dime Community Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dime Community Bancshares include Radian Group (RDN), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), TFS Financial (TFSL), Walker & Dunlop (WD), WSFS Financial (WSFS), WaFd (WAFD), Banc of California (BANC), Provident Financial Services (PFS), Federal Agricultural Mortgage (AGM), and Northwest Bancshares (NWBI). These companies are all part of the "thrifts & mortgage finance" industry.
Dime Community Bancshares vs.
Dime Community Bancshares (NASDAQ:DCOM) and Radian Group (NYSE:RDN) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Dime Community Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Radian Group pays an annual dividend of $0.98 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Dime Community Bancshares pays out 66.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Radian Group pays out 25.4% 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. Radian Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Dime Community Bancshares currently has a consensus target price of $34.20, indicating a potential upside of 0.71%. Radian Group has a consensus target price of $36.10, indicating a potential upside of 9.16%. Given Radian Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Radian Group is more favorable than Dime Community Bancshares.
Radian Group received 253 more outperform votes than Dime Community Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.01% of users gave Radian Group an outperform vote while only 49.55% of users gave Dime Community Bancshares an outperform vote.
Dime Community Bancshares has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Radian Group has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Dime Community Bancshares had 5 more articles in the media than Radian Group. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Dime Community Bancshares and 4 mentions for Radian Group. Radian Group's average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat Dime Community Bancshares' score of 0.63 indicating that Radian Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Radian Group has a net margin of 45.96% compared to Dime Community Bancshares' net margin of 9.65%. Radian Group's return on equity of 13.81% beat Dime Community Bancshares' return on equity.
75.3% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.3% of Radian Group shares are held by institutional investors. 9.1% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Radian Group shares are held 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.
Radian Group has higher revenue and earnings than Dime Community Bancshares. Radian Group 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.
Summary
Radian Group beats Dime Community Bancshares on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:DCOM) was last updated on 12/18/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
