PB vs. SSB, WTFC, BPOP, WAL, HOMB, UBSI, CBSH, GBCI, FFIN, and COLB
Should you be buying Prosperity Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Prosperity Bancshares include SouthState (SSB), Wintrust Financial (WTFC), Popular (BPOP), Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL), Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) (HOMB), United Bankshares (UBSI), Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), Glacier Bancorp (GBCI), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN), and Columbia Banking System (COLB). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
SouthState (NASDAQ:SSB) and Prosperity Bancshares (NYSE:PB) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, risk and dividends.
SouthState pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. 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 increased its dividend for 12 consecutive years and Prosperity Bancshares has increased its dividend for 26 consecutive years. Prosperity Bancshares is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
89.8% of SouthState shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.7% of Prosperity Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of SouthState shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Prosperity Bancshares shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
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.
SouthState received 179 more outperform votes than Prosperity Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.69% of users gave SouthState an outperform vote while only 47.54% of users gave Prosperity Bancshares an outperform vote.
SouthState currently has a consensus price target of $88.17, suggesting a potential upside of 11.69%. Prosperity Bancshares has a consensus price target of $68.86, suggesting a potential upside of 9.43%. Given Prosperity Bancshares' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe SouthState is more favorable than Prosperity Bancshares.
Prosperity Bancshares has a net margin of 24.50% compared to Prosperity Bancshares' net margin of 20.91%. Prosperity Bancshares' return on equity of 9.24% beat SouthState's return on equity.
In the previous week, SouthState had 10 more articles in the media than Prosperity Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for SouthState and 9 mentions for Prosperity Bancshares. SouthState's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Prosperity Bancshares' score of 0.50 indicating that Prosperity Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
Summary
Prosperity Bancshares beats SouthState on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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