CBSH vs. SSB, PB, ALLY, FITB, MTB, FCNCA, HBAN, RF, KEY, and EWBC
Should you be buying Commerce Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Commerce Bancshares include SouthState (SSB), Prosperity Bancshares (PB), Ally Financial (ALLY), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), M&T Bank (MTB), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), and East West Bancorp (EWBC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Commerce Bancshares (NASDAQ:CBSH) and SouthState (NASDAQ:SSB) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, valuation and institutional ownership.
70.3% of Commerce Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of SouthState shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of Commerce Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of SouthState shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
SouthState received 197 more outperform votes than Commerce Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.73% of users gave SouthState an outperform vote while only 45.45% of users gave Commerce Bancshares an outperform vote.
Commerce Bancshares has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SouthState has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Commerce Bancshares had 1 more articles in the media than SouthState. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Commerce Bancshares and 18 mentions for SouthState. SouthState's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Commerce Bancshares' score of 0.59 indicating that SouthState is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Commerce Bancshares presently has a consensus target price of $58.86, suggesting a potential downside of 9.56%. SouthState has a consensus target price of $93.43, suggesting a potential downside of 6.76%. Given SouthState's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe SouthState is more favorable than Commerce Bancshares.
Commerce Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.08 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 2.1%. Commerce Bancshares pays out 30.1% 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.
Commerce Bancshares has a net margin of 23.62% compared to SouthState's net margin of 20.84%. Commerce Bancshares' return on equity of 16.50% beat SouthState's return on equity.
SouthState has higher revenue and earnings than Commerce Bancshares. SouthState is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Commerce Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
SouthState beats Commerce Bancshares on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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