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Flushing Financial (FFIC) Competitors

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$11.51 +0.14 (+1.23%)
Closing price 04/17/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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FFIC vs. NWBI, BHLB, DCOM, OCFC, BRKL, CFFN, TREE, TRST, HIFS, and NFBK

Should you be buying Flushing Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flushing Financial include Northwest Bancshares (NWBI), Berkshire Hills Bancorp (BHLB), Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), Brookline Bancorp (BRKL), Capitol Federal Financial (CFFN), LendingTree (TREE), TrustCo Bank Corp NY (TRST), Hingham Institution for Savings (HIFS), and Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NFBK). These companies are all part of the "thrifts & mortgage finance" industry.

Flushing Financial vs.

Northwest Bancshares (NASDAQ:NWBI) and Flushing Financial (NASDAQ:FFIC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and earnings.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Northwest Bancshares$520.47M2.78$100.28M$0.7914.38
Flushing Financial$124.74M3.12-$31.33M-$1.01-11.40

Northwest Bancshares has a net margin of 13.26% compared to Flushing Financial's net margin of -6.46%. Northwest Bancshares' return on equity of 8.44% beat Flushing Financial's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Northwest Bancshares13.26% 8.44% 0.92%
Flushing Financial -6.46%3.25%0.24%

Northwest Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. Flushing Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.6%. Northwest Bancshares pays out 101.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Flushing Financial pays out -87.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Flushing Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

66.3% of Northwest Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.1% of Flushing Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Northwest Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.3% of Flushing Financial shares are owned by company 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.

Northwest Bancshares has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flushing Financial has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Flushing Financial had 9 more articles in the media than Northwest Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Flushing Financial and 0 mentions for Northwest Bancshares. Flushing Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Northwest Bancshares' score of 0.64 indicating that Flushing Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Northwest Bancshares Positive
Flushing Financial Positive

Northwest Bancshares received 28 more outperform votes than Flushing Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.20% of users gave Northwest Bancshares an outperform vote while only 50.93% of users gave Flushing Financial an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Northwest BancsharesOutperform Votes
274
57.20%
Underperform Votes
205
42.80%
Flushing FinancialOutperform Votes
246
50.93%
Underperform Votes
237
49.07%

Northwest Bancshares currently has a consensus target price of $12.50, indicating a potential upside of 10.04%. Flushing Financial has a consensus target price of $16.17, indicating a potential upside of 40.46%. Given Flushing Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Flushing Financial is more favorable than Northwest Bancshares.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Northwest Bancshares
1 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.50
Flushing Financial
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33

Summary

Flushing Financial beats Northwest Bancshares on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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FFIC vs. The Competition

MetricFlushing FinancialState commercial banks IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$388.77M$2.87B$10.83B$7.35B
Dividend Yield7.97%4.10%6.00%4.31%
P/E Ratio-11.4021.6821.6717.77
Price / Sales3.122.9025.1497.68
Price / Cash13.2610.6317.6134.64
Price / Book0.501.102.563.98
Net Income-$31.33M$372.21M$1.03B$247.44M
7 Day Performance4.26%2.81%2.71%4.44%
1 Month Performance-11.87%-5.98%-3.76%-7.73%
1 Year Performance3.32%16.23%535.17%1.28%

Flushing Financial Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FFIC
Flushing Financial
3.9861 of 5 stars
$11.51
+1.2%
$16.17
+40.5%
+3.3%$388.77M$124.74M-11.40540Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
Positive News
NWBI
Northwest Bancshares
3.4651 of 5 stars
$11.10
-0.7%
$12.50
+12.6%
+6.1%$1.42B$520.47M14.052,160High Trading Volume
BHLB
Berkshire Hills Bancorp
4.7409 of 5 stars
$23.63
+0.4%
$31.13
+31.7%
+15.0%$1.10B$383.76M16.411,310Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume
DCOM
Dime Community Bancshares
3.9974 of 5 stars
$25.07
-0.4%
$38.50
+53.6%
+42.2%$1.09B$314.10M42.49820Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Down
OCFC
OceanFirst Financial
4.4476 of 5 stars
$14.96
-0.7%
$21.00
+40.4%
+8.8%$876.01M$379.81M9.07960Short Interest ↑
Positive News
BRKL
Brookline Bancorp
4.5549 of 5 stars
$9.80
-0.4%
$15.25
+55.6%
+10.3%$873.23M$355.56M12.73850Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Down
CFFN
Capitol Federal Financial
3.5839 of 5 stars
$5.25
flat
$6.50
+23.8%
+2.7%$697.13M$180.76M13.46730Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume
TREE
LendingTree
4.7745 of 5 stars
$43.99
-4.3%
$65.75
+49.5%
+30.2%$589.20M$900.22M-16.291,250Analyst Upgrade
TRST
TrustCo Bank Corp NY
2.5118 of 5 stars
$28.17
-0.7%
N/A+10.1%$535.79M$171.77M10.96820Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↑
HIFS
Hingham Institution for Savings
0.5986 of 5 stars
$222.25
+0.9%
N/A+45.7%$477.84M$65.85M17.3287Earnings Report
NFBK
Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY)
3.8863 of 5 stars
$9.83
-0.3%
$12.00
+22.1%
+18.7%$423.83M$127.91M13.65400

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