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Peoples Financial Services (PFIS) Competitors

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$53.59 +0.90 (+1.71%)
(As of 10:31 AM ET)

PFIS vs. AMNB, SMBK, FISI, GNTY, PFHD, CIFR, LOB, HUT, LU, and CASH

Should you be buying Peoples Financial Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Peoples Financial Services include American National Bankshares (AMNB), SmartFinancial (SMBK), Financial Institutions (FISI), Guaranty Bancshares (GNTY), Professional (PFHD), Cipher Mining (CIFR), Live Oak Bancshares (LOB), Hut 8 (HUT), Lufax (LU), and Pathward Financial (CASH).

Peoples Financial Services vs.

Peoples Financial Services (NASDAQ:PFIS) and American National Bankshares (NASDAQ:AMNB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends and profitability.

Peoples Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $2.47 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. American National Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Peoples Financial Services pays out 239.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. American National Bankshares pays out 49.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

In the previous week, Peoples Financial Services had 1 more articles in the media than American National Bankshares. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Peoples Financial Services and 0 mentions for American National Bankshares. American National Bankshares' average media sentiment score of 0.22 beat Peoples Financial Services' score of 0.00 indicating that American National Bankshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Peoples Financial Services Neutral
American National Bankshares Neutral

Peoples Financial Services has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American National Bankshares has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.

31.7% of Peoples Financial Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.9% of American National Bankshares shares are held by institutional investors. 4.1% of Peoples Financial Services shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of American National Bankshares shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Peoples Financial Services presently has a consensus target price of $50.00, indicating a potential downside of 6.70%. Given Peoples Financial Services' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Peoples Financial Services is more favorable than American National Bankshares.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Peoples Financial Services
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
American National Bankshares
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Peoples Financial Services has higher revenue and earnings than American National Bankshares. American National Bankshares 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Peoples Financial Services$163.98M3.26$27.38M$1.0352.03
American National Bankshares$138.57M3.66$26.16M$2.4519.49

American National Bankshares has a net margin of 18.88% compared to Peoples Financial Services' net margin of 3.00%. American National Bankshares' return on equity of 7.88% beat Peoples Financial Services' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Peoples Financial Services3.00% 7.73% 0.71%
American National Bankshares 18.88%7.88%0.85%

American National Bankshares received 126 more outperform votes than Peoples Financial Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 52.20% of users gave Peoples Financial Services an outperform vote while only 49.16% of users gave American National Bankshares an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Peoples Financial ServicesOutperform Votes
107
52.20%
Underperform Votes
98
47.80%
American National BanksharesOutperform Votes
233
49.16%
Underperform Votes
241
50.84%

Summary

American National Bankshares beats Peoples Financial Services on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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PFIS vs. The Competition

MetricPeoples Financial ServicesNational commercial banks IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$535.36M$22.69B$10.53B$8.80B
Dividend Yield4.70%3.15%10.13%4.07%
P/E Ratio52.0328.1846.3813.60
Price / Sales3.262.353,473.7987.40
Price / Cash10.7310.8630.6036.27
Price / Book1.131.244.086.33
Net Income$27.38M$2.24B$1.02B$225.93M
7 Day Performance2.47%-0.54%0.20%-0.96%
1 Month Performance15.62%8.16%7.38%1.06%
1 Year Performance26.15%33.88%24.42%26.59%

Peoples Financial Services Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PFIS
Peoples Financial Services
1.6987 of 5 stars
$53.59
+1.7%
$50.00
-6.7%
+21.1%$535.36M$163.98M52.03400
AMNB
American National Bankshares
N/A$47.76
flat
N/AN/A$507.69M$138.57M19.49334Analyst Forecast
SMBK
SmartFinancial
2.5421 of 5 stars
$35.77
+0.3%
$29.50
-17.5%
+63.5%$605.59M$240.37M18.39550Positive News
FISI
Financial Institutions
3.1298 of 5 stars
$26.70
+1.2%
$22.00
-17.6%
+47.6%$413.05M$334.38M8.30624
GNTY
Guaranty Bancshares
N/A$36.06
-1.4%
$35.00
-2.9%
+19.2%$411.81M$179.01M15.31470
PFHD
Professional
N/A$28.65
-0.5%
N/A+0.0%$395.66M$107.18M18.37208High Trading Volume
CIFR
Cipher Mining
2.1136 of 5 stars
$6.13
-5.8%
$7.72
+25.9%
+161.4%$2.13B$126.84M-50.0710Gap Up
LOB
Live Oak Bancshares
3.2103 of 5 stars
$47.02
+2.2%
$45.50
-3.2%
+36.4%$2.12B$800.01M28.96987Dividend Announcement
HUT
Hut 8
3.0238 of 5 stars
$22.61
-7.6%
$30.17
+33.4%
+1,135.4%$2.12B$115.90M0.00219Analyst Revision
Gap Up
LU
Lufax
3.1766 of 5 stars
$2.34
-2.9%
$3.58
+53.1%
-33.6%$2.03B$4.82B0.0036,215
CASH
Pathward Financial
2.8032 of 5 stars
$80.39
+1.1%
$74.50
-7.3%
+58.8%$2.01B$775.94M11.991,199Short Interest ↓
Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:PFIS) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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