BPOP vs. SSB, WTFC, PB, FFIN, MTB, FITB, FCNCA, HBAN, RF, and KEY
Should you be buying Popular stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Popular include SouthState (SSB), Wintrust Financial (WTFC), Prosperity Bancshares (PB), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN), M&T Bank (MTB), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), and KeyCorp (KEY). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
SouthState (NASDAQ:SSB) and Popular (NASDAQ:BPOP) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings and profitability.
SouthState received 41 more outperform votes than Popular when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.36% of users gave Popular an outperform vote while only 61.73% of users gave SouthState an outperform vote.
89.8% of SouthState shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.3% of Popular shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of SouthState shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Popular shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
SouthState has a net margin of 20.84% compared to SouthState's net margin of 12.20%. SouthState's return on equity of 12.00% beat Popular's return on equity.
SouthState pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Popular pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. SouthState pays out 33.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Popular pays out 36.8% 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 raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years.
SouthState currently has a consensus target price of $93.43, suggesting a potential downside of 6.76%. Popular has a consensus target price of $105.22, suggesting a potential upside of 2.38%. Given SouthState's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Popular is more favorable than SouthState.
In the previous week, Popular had 12 more articles in the media than SouthState. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Popular and 18 mentions for SouthState. SouthState's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Popular's score of 0.71 indicating that Popular is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SouthState has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Popular has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Popular has higher revenue and earnings than SouthState. Popular is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SouthState, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Popular beats SouthState on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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