PFIS vs. MBIN, CASH, HUT, NTB, WULF, BTDR, NIC, CUBI, TFIN, and CLBK
Should you be buying Peoples Financial Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Peoples Financial Services include Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), Pathward Financial (CASH), Hut 8 (HUT), Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son (NTB), TeraWulf (WULF), Bitdeer Technologies Group (BTDR), Nicolet Bankshares (NIC), Customers Bancorp (CUBI), Triumph Financial (TFIN), and Columbia Financial (CLBK). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Peoples Financial Services vs.
Peoples Financial Services (NASDAQ:PFIS) and Merchants Bancorp (NASDAQ:MBIN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, risk and analyst recommendations.
Merchants Bancorp has a net margin of 22.08% compared to Peoples Financial Services' net margin of 3.70%. Merchants Bancorp's return on equity of 22.86% beat Peoples Financial Services' return on equity.
Merchants Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Peoples Financial Services. Merchants Bancorp 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.
Peoples Financial Services presently has a consensus target price of $50.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1.52%. Merchants Bancorp has a consensus target price of $54.50, suggesting a potential upside of 31.42%. Given Merchants Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Merchants Bancorp is more favorable than Peoples Financial Services.
31.7% of Peoples Financial Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.6% of Merchants Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.1% of Peoples Financial Services shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 39.7% of Merchants Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Peoples Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $2.47 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Merchants Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Peoples Financial Services pays out 218.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Merchants Bancorp pays out 5.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Merchants Bancorp received 101 more outperform votes than Peoples Financial Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.11% of users gave Merchants Bancorp an outperform vote while only 52.43% of users gave Peoples Financial Services an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Merchants Bancorp had 6 more articles in the media than Peoples Financial Services. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Merchants Bancorp and 1 mentions for Peoples Financial Services. Peoples Financial Services' average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Merchants Bancorp's score of 1.01 indicating that Peoples Financial Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Peoples Financial Services has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Merchants Bancorp has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Merchants Bancorp beats Peoples Financial Services on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:PFIS) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
