SMBK vs. PFIS, AMNB, HAFC, PFHD, SFST, AVAL, TFIN, INTR, HUT, and CIFR
Should you be buying SmartFinancial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SmartFinancial include Peoples Financial Services (PFIS), American National Bankshares (AMNB), Hanmi Financial (HAFC), Professional (PFHD), Southern First Bancshares (SFST), Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores (AVAL), Triumph Financial (TFIN), Inter & Co, Inc. (INTR), Hut 8 (HUT), and Cipher Mining (CIFR).
SmartFinancial vs.
SmartFinancial (NASDAQ:SMBK) and Peoples Financial Services (NASDAQ:PFIS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, risk, profitability, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and community ranking.
SmartFinancial presently has a consensus price target of $29.50, suggesting a potential downside of 19.18%. Peoples Financial Services has a consensus price target of $50.00, suggesting a potential downside of 11.49%. Given Peoples Financial Services' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Peoples Financial Services is more favorable than SmartFinancial.
SmartFinancial pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Peoples Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $2.47 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. SmartFinancial pays out 16.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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.
In the previous week, SmartFinancial had 1 more articles in the media than Peoples Financial Services. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for SmartFinancial and 2 mentions for Peoples Financial Services. SmartFinancial's average media sentiment score of 1.76 beat Peoples Financial Services' score of 0.98 indicating that SmartFinancial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SmartFinancial has higher revenue and earnings than Peoples Financial Services. SmartFinancial 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.
SmartFinancial has a net margin of 11.88% compared to Peoples Financial Services' net margin of 3.00%. Peoples Financial Services' return on equity of 7.73% beat SmartFinancial's return on equity.
SmartFinancial has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Peoples Financial Services has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SmartFinancial received 85 more outperform votes than Peoples Financial Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.36% of users gave SmartFinancial an outperform vote while only 52.20% of users gave Peoples Financial Services an outperform vote.
58.8% of SmartFinancial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.7% of Peoples Financial Services shares are held by institutional investors. 7.7% of SmartFinancial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of Peoples Financial Services shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
SmartFinancial beats Peoples Financial Services on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:SMBK) was last updated on 11/23/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
