PFC vs. DCOM, BRKL, OCFC, HTBI, NFBK, TCBI, FIBK, CATY, FHB, and BOH
Should you be buying Premier Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Premier Financial include Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM), Brookline Bancorp (BRKL), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), HomeTrust Bancshares (HTBI), Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NFBK), Texas Capital Bancshares (TCBI), First Interstate BancSystem (FIBK), Cathay General Bancorp (CATY), First Hawaiian (FHB), and Bank of Hawaii (BOH). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Premier Financial (NASDAQ:PFC) and Dime Community Bancshares (NASDAQ:DCOM) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership and valuation.
Premier Financial has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Dime Community Bancshares. Premier Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dime Community Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Premier Financial currently has a consensus price target of $22.50, indicating a potential upside of 14.16%. Dime Community Bancshares has a consensus price target of $26.83, indicating a potential upside of 45.28%. Given Dime Community Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Dime Community Bancshares is more favorable than Premier Financial.
Premier Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. Dime Community Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Premier Financial pays out 40.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Dime Community Bancshares pays out 56.2% 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 a net margin of 23.67% compared to Dime Community Bancshares' net margin of 11.46%. Premier Financial's return on equity of 9.12% beat Dime Community Bancshares' return on equity.
Dime Community Bancshares received 199 more outperform votes than Premier Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 49.31% of users gave Dime Community Bancshares an outperform vote while only 40.00% of users gave Premier Financial an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Premier Financial had 2 more articles in the media than Dime Community Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Premier Financial and 3 mentions for Dime Community Bancshares. Dime Community Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat Premier Financial's score of 0.83 indicating that Dime Community Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Premier Financial has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dime Community Bancshares has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
66.1% of Premier Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.3% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of Premier Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.1% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Premier Financial and Dime Community Bancshares tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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