GSBC vs. TOWN, TBBK, SFNC, FFBC, FRME, RNST, SYBT, BANR, SBCF, and TRMK
Should you be buying Great Southern Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Great Southern Bancorp include TowneBank (TOWN), Bancorp (TBBK), Simmons First National (SFNC), First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC), First Merchants (FRME), Renasant (RNST), Stock Yards Bancorp (SYBT), Banner (BANR), Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida (SBCF), and Trustmark (TRMK). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Great Southern Bancorp vs.
TowneBank (NASDAQ:TOWN) and Great Southern Bancorp (NASDAQ:GSBC) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends and media sentiment.
Great Southern Bancorp received 22 more outperform votes than TowneBank when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.02% of users gave Great Southern Bancorp an outperform vote while only 54.88% of users gave TowneBank an outperform vote.
TowneBank currently has a consensus price target of $40.00, indicating a potential upside of 16.82%. Great Southern Bancorp has a consensus price target of $59.50, indicating a potential upside of 5.87%. Given TowneBank's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe TowneBank is more favorable than Great Southern Bancorp.
TowneBank pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Great Southern Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. TowneBank pays out 45.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Great Southern Bancorp pays out 28.6% 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. TowneBank has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years. TowneBank is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Great Southern Bancorp has a net margin of 17.40% compared to TowneBank's net margin of 15.77%. Great Southern Bancorp's return on equity of 10.62% beat TowneBank's return on equity.
TowneBank has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Great Southern Bancorp has a beta of 0.51, indicating that its stock price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, TowneBank had 1 more articles in the media than Great Southern Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for TowneBank and 1 mentions for Great Southern Bancorp. Great Southern Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.29 beat TowneBank's score of 0.84 indicating that Great Southern Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
56.0% of TowneBank shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.7% of Great Southern Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.1% of TowneBank shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 27.9% of Great Southern Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
TowneBank has higher revenue and earnings than Great Southern Bancorp. Great Southern Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TowneBank, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
TowneBank beats Great Southern Bancorp on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:GSBC) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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