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PennyMac Financial Services (PFSI) Competitors

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$102.72 -2.15 (-2.05%)
(As of 11/20/2024 ET)

PFSI vs. CFG, AFRM, SHG, BSBR, SOFI, ALLY, UWMC, BSAC, WF, and CIB

Should you be buying PennyMac Financial Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PennyMac Financial Services include Citizens Financial Group (CFG), Affirm (AFRM), Shinhan Financial Group (SHG), Banco Santander (Brasil) (BSBR), SoFi Technologies (SOFI), Ally Financial (ALLY), UWM (UWMC), Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC), Woori Financial Group (WF), and Bancolombia (CIB). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.

PennyMac Financial Services vs.

PennyMac Financial Services (NYSE:PFSI) and Citizens Financial Group (NYSE:CFG) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, earnings, dividends and media sentiment.

PennyMac Financial Services currently has a consensus target price of $115.86, indicating a potential upside of 12.79%. Citizens Financial Group has a consensus target price of $43.80, indicating a potential downside of 5.03%. Given PennyMac Financial Services' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe PennyMac Financial Services is more favorable than Citizens Financial Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
PennyMac Financial Services
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.71
Citizens Financial Group
0 Sell rating(s)
8 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

PennyMac Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Citizens Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. PennyMac Financial Services pays out 38.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Citizens Financial Group pays out 66.1% 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.

Citizens Financial Group received 131 more outperform votes than PennyMac Financial Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.14% of users gave PennyMac Financial Services an outperform vote while only 62.04% of users gave Citizens Financial Group an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
PennyMac Financial ServicesOutperform Votes
397
64.14%
Underperform Votes
222
35.86%
Citizens Financial GroupOutperform Votes
528
62.04%
Underperform Votes
323
37.96%

57.9% of PennyMac Financial Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.9% of Citizens Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. 16.6% of PennyMac Financial Services shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Citizens Financial Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Citizens Financial Group had 7 more articles in the media than PennyMac Financial Services. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Citizens Financial Group and 5 mentions for PennyMac Financial Services. Citizens Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 1.55 beat PennyMac Financial Services' score of 0.38 indicating that Citizens Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
PennyMac Financial Services
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Citizens Financial Group
12 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

PennyMac Financial Services has a net margin of 11.45% compared to Citizens Financial Group's net margin of 10.37%. PennyMac Financial Services' return on equity of 15.13% beat Citizens Financial Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
PennyMac Financial Services11.45% 15.13% 2.64%
Citizens Financial Group 10.37%5.73%0.58%

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
PennyMac Financial Services$1.40B3.76$144.66M$3.1532.61
Citizens Financial Group$12.19B1.67$1.61B$2.5418.16

PennyMac Financial Services has a beta of 1.79, suggesting that its share price is 79% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Citizens Financial Group has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

PennyMac Financial Services beats Citizens Financial Group on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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PFSI vs. The Competition

MetricPennyMac Financial ServicesMortgage bankers & correspondents IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$5.38B$5.58B$10.41B$19.84B
Dividend Yield1.14%6.19%10.14%3.50%
P/E Ratio32.6110.2547.1237.73
Price / Sales3.7637.433,443.7818.01
Price / Cash14.579.5530.7717.90
Price / Book1.411.072.484.86
Net Income$144.66M$1.06M$993.44M$985.93M
7 Day Performance1.44%0.98%-0.05%0.45%
1 Month Performance-2.09%5.85%7.13%1.05%
1 Year Performance31.62%44.19%24.11%24.67%

PennyMac Financial Services Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PFSI
PennyMac Financial Services
4.6071 of 5 stars
$102.72
-2.1%
$115.86
+12.8%
+31.3%$5.38B$1.40B32.613,900Ex-Dividend
Insider Trade
CFG
Citizens Financial Group
4.6463 of 5 stars
$46.12
+0.2%
$43.80
-5.0%
+67.2%$20.33B$12.19B18.1617,570Positive News
AFRM
Affirm
2.5386 of 5 stars
$63.19
-1.2%
$46.85
-25.9%
+148.2%$19.85B$2.52B-44.502,006Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Short Interest ↓
SHG
Shinhan Financial Group
4.6324 of 5 stars
$39.58
+2.6%
N/A+41.0%$19.65B$25.42B6.21190Positive News
Gap Up
BSBR
Banco Santander (Brasil)
3.0407 of 5 stars
$4.46
+0.9%
N/A-29.5%$16.60B$29.50B0.0055,611Analyst Upgrade
News Coverage
Positive News
SOFI
SoFi Technologies
2.423 of 5 stars
$14.67
+1.7%
$9.80
-33.2%
+121.8%$15.65B$2.12B146.714,400Analyst Forecast
ALLY
Ally Financial
4.977 of 5 stars
$35.53
-0.1%
$40.69
+14.5%
+28.6%$10.83B$8.21B14.2111,100
UWMC
UWM
2.9797 of 5 stars
$6.07
-2.7%
$7.53
+24.1%
+7.0%$9.70B$835.67M-26.396,700Options Volume
High Trading Volume
BSAC
Banco Santander-Chile
4.2727 of 5 stars
$19.52
+1.3%
$21.50
+10.1%
+1.7%$9.08B$6.07B11.099,229Positive News
WF
Woori Financial Group
3.8453 of 5 stars
$35.44
+0.6%
N/A+20.5%$8.72B$17.78B4.61150
CIB
Bancolombia
1.4595 of 5 stars
$33.49
+1.7%
$33.67
+0.5%
+21.9%$7.92B$27.76T5.3134,756Positive News

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