SSB vs. WTFC, PB, BPOP, WAL, CBSH, HOMB, UBSI, FFIN, GBCI, and COLB
Should you be buying SouthState stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SouthState include Wintrust Financial (WTFC), Prosperity Bancshares (PB), Popular (BPOP), Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL), Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) (HOMB), United Bankshares (UBSI), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN), Glacier Bancorp (GBCI), and Columbia Banking System (COLB). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Wintrust Financial (NASDAQ:WTFC) and SouthState (NASDAQ:SSB) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk and community ranking.
93.5% of Wintrust Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of SouthState shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Wintrust Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of SouthState shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Wintrust Financial and Wintrust Financial both had 6 articles in the media. SouthState's average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Wintrust Financial's score of 1.41 indicating that Wintrust Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Wintrust Financial has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SouthState has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Wintrust Financial presently has a consensus price target of $112.33, suggesting a potential upside of 10.18%. SouthState has a consensus price target of $88.17, suggesting a potential upside of 9.05%. Given SouthState's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Wintrust Financial is more favorable than SouthState.
SouthState has a net margin of 20.91% compared to SouthState's net margin of 17.86%. SouthState's return on equity of 13.09% beat Wintrust Financial's return on equity.
Wintrust Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. SouthState pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Wintrust Financial pays out 18.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SouthState pays out 33.9% 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. Wintrust Financial has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years and SouthState has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years. SouthState is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
SouthState received 28 more outperform votes than Wintrust Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.69% of users gave SouthState an outperform vote while only 61.50% of users gave Wintrust Financial an outperform vote.
Wintrust Financial has higher revenue and earnings than SouthState. Wintrust Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SouthState, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Wintrust Financial beats SouthState on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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