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Premier Financial (FDEF) Competitors

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FDEF vs. SMPL, TFSL, WD, WSFS, WAFD, PFS, BANC, AGM, NWBI, and DCOM

Should you be buying Premier Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Premier Financial include Simply Good Foods (SMPL), TFS Financial (TFSL), Walker & Dunlop (WD), WSFS Financial (WSFS), WaFd (WAFD), Provident Financial Services (PFS), Banc of California (BANC), Federal Agricultural Mortgage (AGM), Northwest Bancshares (NWBI), and Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM). These companies are all part of the "thrifts & mortgage finance" industry.

Premier Financial vs.

Premier Financial (NASDAQ:FDEF) and Simply Good Foods (NASDAQ:SMPL) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.

Simply Good Foods has a consensus price target of $40.22, indicating a potential upside of 4.88%. Given Simply Good Foods' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Simply Good Foods is more favorable than Premier Financial.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Premier Financial
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Simply Good Foods
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67

64.9% of Premier Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.4% of Simply Good Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Premier Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.4% of Simply Good Foods shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Simply Good Foods has a net margin of 10.46% compared to Premier Financial's net margin of 7.34%. Simply Good Foods' return on equity of 10.23% beat Premier Financial's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Premier Financial7.34% 8.19% 1.07%
Simply Good Foods 10.46%10.23%7.68%

Premier Financial has a beta of 1.42, suggesting that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Simply Good Foods has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Premier Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Simply Good Foods pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Premier Financial pays out 34.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Simply Good Foods pays out 26.1% 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.

Simply Good Foods has higher revenue and earnings than Premier Financial. Premier Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Simply Good Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Premier Financial$186.04M5.31$49.37M$2.5310.36
Simply Good Foods$1.33B2.91$139.31M$1.3827.79

In the previous week, Simply Good Foods had 4 more articles in the media than Premier Financial. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Simply Good Foods and 0 mentions for Premier Financial. Simply Good Foods' average media sentiment score of 1.71 beat Premier Financial's score of 0.00 indicating that Simply Good Foods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Premier Financial Neutral
Simply Good Foods Very Positive

Simply Good Foods received 131 more outperform votes than Premier Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.07% of users gave Simply Good Foods an outperform vote while only 51.46% of users gave Premier Financial an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Premier FinancialOutperform Votes
176
51.46%
Underperform Votes
166
48.54%
Simply Good FoodsOutperform Votes
307
68.07%
Underperform Votes
144
31.93%

Summary

Simply Good Foods beats Premier Financial on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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FDEF vs. The Competition

MetricPremier FinancialFederal Savings Institutions IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$987.23M$2.74B$11.33B$9.08B
Dividend Yield4.86%3.21%5.65%4.23%
P/E Ratio22.0315.2925.7917.19
Price / Sales5.313.9328.25117.05
Price / Cash6.1419.3918.4737.85
Price / Book1.211.002.624.78
Net Income$49.37M$358.89M$1.04B$225.60M

Premier Financial Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FDEF
Premier Financial
N/A$26.21
+1.8%
N/A+11.3%$987.23M$186.04M22.03696High Trading Volume
SMPL
Simply Good Foods
2.2216 of 5 stars
$39.63
+1.2%
$40.22
+1.5%
-1.5%$3.97B$1.33B28.68260Positive News
TFSL
TFS Financial
3.7934 of 5 stars
$13.55
-0.7%
$14.50
+7.0%
-14.0%$3.80B$758.78M50.521,000
WD
Walker & Dunlop
1.7952 of 5 stars
$107.76
-0.9%
$111.00
+3.0%
-8.1%$3.64B$1.05B38.501,326News Coverage
Positive News
WSFS
WSFS Financial
3.8026 of 5 stars
$59.82
+0.5%
$59.75
-0.1%
+14.6%$3.52B$1.27B13.602,229Analyst Revision
WAFD
WaFd
4.848 of 5 stars
$36.22
+0.8%
$38.00
+4.9%
+1.1%$2.95B$1.43B14.492,208Analyst Revision
News Coverage
PFS
Provident Financial Services
4.042 of 5 stars
$20.79
+0.1%
$23.00
+10.6%
+4.8%$2.71B$695.65M19.961,142
BANC
Banc of California
4.6761 of 5 stars
$17.06
flat
$17.80
+4.3%
+14.8%$2.71B$1.97B0.002,304Analyst Revision
AGM
Federal Agricultural Mortgage
4.2134 of 5 stars
$211.05
-1.3%
$215.00
+1.9%
+5.9%$2.30B$1.42B13.75185Positive News
NWBI
Northwest Bancshares
1.0716 of 5 stars
$14.46
+0.3%
$12.50
-13.6%
+6.3%$1.84B$701.74M18.972,165
DCOM
Dime Community Bancshares
3.0185 of 5 stars
$36.18
+0.8%
$34.20
-5.5%
+18.7%$1.42B$645.57M23.93820Dividend Announcement
Analyst Revision
News Coverage

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This page (NASDAQ:FDEF) was last updated on 12/22/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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