SSBK vs. SVBI, ESSA, SBBX, HWBK, PTRS, GABC, LBAI, SBSI, AMAL, and CTBI
Should you be buying Southern States Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Southern States Bancshares include Severn Bancorp (SVBI), ESSA Bancorp (ESSA), SB One Bancorp (SBBX), Hawthorn Bancshares (HWBK), Partners Bancorp (PTRS), German American Bancorp (GABC), Lakeland Bancorp (LBAI), Southside Bancshares (SBSI), Amalgamated Financial (AMAL), and Community Trust Bancorp (CTBI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Southern States Bancshares (NASDAQ:SSBK) and Severn Bancorp (NASDAQ:SVBI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, community ranking, media sentiment and profitability.
Southern States Bancshares has a beta of 0.22, indicating that its share price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Severn Bancorp has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Severn Bancorp received 90 more outperform votes than Southern States Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.56% of users gave Severn Bancorp an outperform vote while only 46.15% of users gave Southern States Bancshares an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Southern States Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Severn Bancorp'saverage media sentiment score.
Southern States Bancshares currently has a consensus target price of $35.00, indicating a potential upside of 34.15%. Given Southern States Bancshares' higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Southern States Bancshares is more favorable than Severn Bancorp.
58.7% of Southern States Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.4% of Severn Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.8% of Southern States Bancshares shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 24.0% of Severn Bancorp 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.
Southern States Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Severn Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Southern States Bancshares pays out 10.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Southern States Bancshares has a net margin of 21.51% compared to Severn Bancorp's net margin of 19.23%. Southern States Bancshares' return on equity of 15.31% beat Severn Bancorp's return on equity.
Southern States Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than Severn Bancorp.
Summary
Southern States Bancshares and Severn Bancorp tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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