Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM) & Its Competitors Head-To-Head Analysis

Dime Community Bancshares (NASDAQ:DCOM) is one of 919 publicly-traded companies in the “Banks” industry, but how does it compare to its rivals? We will compare Dime Community Bancshares to related businesses based on the strength of its risk, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Dime Community Bancshares and its rivals, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Dime Community Bancshares	0	2	4	0	2.67
Dime Community Bancshares Competitors	7494	30253	27859	1490	2.35

Dime Community Bancshares currently has a consensus price target of $45.50, suggesting a potential upside of 8.24%. As a group, “Banks” companies have a potential upside of 14.52%. Given Dime Community Bancshares’ rivals higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Dime Community Bancshares has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.

Profitability

This table compares Dime Community Bancshares and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Dime Community Bancshares	15.15%	9.12%	0.83%
Dime Community Bancshares Competitors	15.63%	9.41%	0.93%

Volatility & Risk

Dime Community Bancshares has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dime Community Bancshares’ rivals have a beta of 0.61, indicating that their average stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Dividends

Dime Community Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Dime Community Bancshares pays out 32.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Banks” companies pay a dividend yield of 8.9% and pay out 28.9% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Dime Community Bancshares has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Dime Community Bancshares lags its rivals as a dividend stock, given its lower dividend yield and higher payout ratio.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

75.3% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.0% of shares of all “Banks” companies are owned by institutional investors. 7.4% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.7% of shares of all “Banks” companies 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.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Dime Community Bancshares and its rivals gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Dime Community Bancshares	$509.18 million	$110.68 million	13.65
Dime Community Bancshares Competitors	$208.16 billion	$2.42 billion	21.42

Dime Community Bancshares’ rivals have higher revenue and earnings than Dime Community Bancshares. Dime Community Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Dime Community Bancshares rivals beat Dime Community Bancshares on 11 of the 15 factors compared.

Dime Community Bancshares Company Profile

Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. is the bank holding company for Dime Community Bank, a community bank headquartered in Hauppauge, New York. The bank offers deposit accounts and lending services to individuals, businesses and organizations. Its lending activities include commercial real estate, multifamily, commercial business, residential mortgage and consumer loans. The bank also provides cash management and other banking services to business customers. Dime traces its roots to the Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh, founded in Brooklyn in 1864.