SSB vs. PB, OZK, HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, WBS, CBSH, and WAL
Should you be buying SouthState stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SouthState include Prosperity Bancshares (PB), Bank OZK (OZK), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), Webster Financial (WBS), Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), and Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
SouthState (NASDAQ:SSB) and Prosperity Bancshares (NYSE:PB) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking and risk.
89.8% of SouthState shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.7% of Prosperity Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of SouthState shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Prosperity Bancshares shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
SouthState presently has a consensus price target of $90.57, indicating a potential upside of 16.96%. Prosperity Bancshares has a consensus price target of $68.86, indicating a potential upside of 11.79%. Given SouthState's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe SouthState is more favorable than Prosperity Bancshares.
SouthState pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Prosperity Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $2.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. SouthState pays out 33.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Prosperity Bancshares pays out 51.6% 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.
SouthState has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Prosperity Bancshares has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, SouthState had 7 more articles in the media than Prosperity Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for SouthState and 1 mentions for Prosperity Bancshares. Prosperity Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.84 beat SouthState's score of 0.64 indicating that Prosperity Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SouthState received 181 more outperform votes than Prosperity Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.79% of users gave SouthState an outperform vote while only 47.54% of users gave Prosperity Bancshares an outperform vote.
SouthState has higher revenue and earnings than Prosperity Bancshares. SouthState is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Prosperity Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Prosperity Bancshares has a net margin of 24.50% compared to SouthState's net margin of 20.91%. SouthState's return on equity of 9.24% beat Prosperity Bancshares' return on equity.
Summary
SouthState and Prosperity Bancshares tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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