BRKL vs. PFC, CFFN, NYCB, WSFS, WAFD, BANC, AGM, NWBI, PFS, and BHLB
Should you be buying Brookline Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookline Bancorp include Premier Financial (PFC), Capitol Federal Financial (CFFN), New York Community Bancorp (NYCB), WSFS Financial (WSFS), WaFd (WAFD), Banc of California (BANC), Federal Agricultural Mortgage (AGM), Northwest Bancshares (NWBI), Provident Financial Services (PFS), and Berkshire Hills Bancorp (BHLB). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Brookline Bancorp (NASDAQ:BRKL) and Premier Financial (NASDAQ:PFC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
Brookline Bancorp received 206 more outperform votes than Premier Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.05% of users gave Brookline Bancorp an outperform vote while only 40.00% of users gave Premier Financial an outperform vote.
Premier Financial has a net margin of 23.67% compared to Brookline Bancorp's net margin of 13.13%. Premier Financial's return on equity of 9.12% beat Brookline Bancorp's return on equity.
Brookline Bancorp has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Premier Financial has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Brookline Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. Premier Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. Brookline Bancorp pays out 58.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Premier Financial pays out 40.0% 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. Premier Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Premier Financial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Brookline Bancorp. Premier Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookline Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
78.9% of Brookline Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.1% of Premier Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.9% of Brookline Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Premier Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Brookline Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $11.08, suggesting a potential upside of 28.13%. Premier Financial has a consensus price target of $22.50, suggesting a potential upside of 14.16%. Given Brookline Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Brookline Bancorp is more favorable than Premier Financial.
In the previous week, Premier Financial had 3 more articles in the media than Brookline Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Premier Financial and 2 mentions for Brookline Bancorp. Brookline Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.60 beat Premier Financial's score of 0.83 indicating that Brookline Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Brookline Bancorp and Premier Financial tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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