WTFC vs. SSB, BPOP, PB, WAL, CBSH, HOMB, UBSI, FFIN, GBCI, and COLB
Should you be buying Wintrust Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wintrust Financial include SouthState (SSB), Popular (BPOP), Prosperity Bancshares (PB), 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 investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Wintrust Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. 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 a beta of 1.21, meaning that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SouthState has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
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, 1.7% of SouthState shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
SouthState has a net margin of 20.91% compared to Wintrust Financial's net margin of 17.86%. Wintrust Financial's return on equity of 13.09% beat SouthState's return on equity.
In the previous week, Wintrust Financial had 3 more articles in the media than SouthState. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Wintrust Financial and 4 mentions for SouthState. SouthState's average media sentiment score of 1.69 beat Wintrust Financial's score of 1.42 indicating that SouthState is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Wintrust Financial presently has a consensus price target of $112.33, indicating a potential upside of 9.07%. SouthState has a consensus price target of $88.17, indicating a potential upside of 8.31%. Given Wintrust Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Wintrust Financial is more favorable than SouthState.
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.
Summary
Wintrust Financial beats SouthState on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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