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$22.57 +1.41 (+6.66%)
Closing price 07/25/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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PPBI vs. ABCB, BANR, CATY, FFBC, HOPE, HWC, RNST, SFNC, UBSI, and WSFS

Should you be buying Pacific Premier Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pacific Premier Bancorp include Ameris Bancorp (ABCB), Banner (BANR), Cathay General Bancorp (CATY), First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC), Hope Bancorp (HOPE), Hancock Whitney (HWC), Renasant (RNST), Simmons First National (SFNC), United Bankshares (UBSI), and WSFS Financial (WSFS). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

Pacific Premier Bancorp vs. Its Competitors

Pacific Premier Bancorp (NASDAQ:PPBI) and Ameris Bancorp (NASDAQ:ABCB) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.

In the previous week, Pacific Premier Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than Ameris Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Pacific Premier Bancorp and 8 mentions for Ameris Bancorp. Ameris Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.50 beat Pacific Premier Bancorp's score of 1.19 indicating that Ameris Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Pacific Premier Bancorp
4 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Ameris Bancorp
7 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

Pacific Premier Bancorp has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ameris Bancorp has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Pacific Premier Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Ameris Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Pacific Premier Bancorp pays out 86.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ameris Bancorp pays out 14.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Ameris Bancorp has a net margin of 21.46% compared to Pacific Premier Bancorp's net margin of 16.13%. Ameris Bancorp's return on equity of 9.57% beat Pacific Premier Bancorp's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Pacific Premier Bancorp16.13% 4.86% 0.80%
Ameris Bancorp 21.46%9.57%1.32%

93.1% of Pacific Premier Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of Ameris Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Pacific Premier Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of Ameris Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Pacific Premier Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $27.50, suggesting a potential upside of 21.84%. Ameris Bancorp has a consensus target price of $71.43, suggesting a potential upside of 7.75%. Given Pacific Premier Bancorp's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Pacific Premier Bancorp is more favorable than Ameris Bancorp.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Pacific Premier Bancorp
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Ameris Bancorp
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.86

Ameris Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Pacific Premier Bancorp. Ameris Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pacific Premier Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Pacific Premier Bancorp$905.41M2.42$158.80M$1.5214.85
Ameris Bancorp$1.12B4.07$358.68M$5.4012.28

Summary

Ameris Bancorp beats Pacific Premier Bancorp on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding PPBI and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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PPBI vs. The Competition

MetricPacific Premier BancorpFIN IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$2.05B$611.39M$12.28B$9.50B
Dividend Yield6.24%3.38%5.54%4.01%
P/E Ratio15.899.9919.0320.05
Price / Sales2.421.8126.1190.19
Price / Cash12.9515.1121.6358.56
Price / Book0.741.002.205.87
Net Income$158.80M$33.50M$997.25M$258.55M
7 Day Performance2.13%-0.47%0.60%3.73%
1 Month Performance5.81%2.84%3.44%11.75%
1 Year Performance-17.45%5.46%536.57%18.03%

Pacific Premier Bancorp Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PPBI
Pacific Premier Bancorp
3.7206 of 5 stars
$22.57
+6.7%
$27.50
+21.8%
-15.5%$2.05B$905.41M15.891,325News Coverage
Positive News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
ABCB
Ameris Bancorp
3.2357 of 5 stars
$66.67
-1.0%
$71.43
+7.1%
+8.9%$4.59B$1.12B12.802,850Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
BANR
Banner
2.8127 of 5 stars
$65.93
-0.2%
$70.17
+6.4%
+8.3%$2.29B$832.99M12.561,956Dividend Announcement
CATY
Cathay General Bancorp
4.0588 of 5 stars
$48.09
-0.2%
$50.17
+4.3%
+3.7%$3.38B$1.39B12.141,266News Coverage
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
FFBC
First Financial Bancorp.
4.4688 of 5 stars
$24.59
-1.1%
$28.75
+16.9%
-8.1%$2.38B$1.62B9.352,090Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Increase
Gap Up
HOPE
Hope Bancorp
4.7585 of 5 stars
$11.36
-0.3%
$13.50
+18.8%
-21.3%$1.46B$1.00B14.561,244Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Revision
HWC
Hancock Whitney
4.5503 of 5 stars
$60.38
+0.3%
$66.71
+10.5%
+7.9%$5.16B$2.06B11.123,476Dividend Announcement
Analyst Downgrade
RNST
Renasant
3.8661 of 5 stars
$38.47
-0.9%
$41.00
+6.6%
+0.7%$3.66B$668.50M11.762,330News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
SFNC
Simmons First National
4.7651 of 5 stars
$20.08
+0.1%
$22.67
+12.9%
-9.8%$2.53B$1.46B15.812,946Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Analyst Revision
UBSI
United Bankshares
3.8985 of 5 stars
$37.15
-0.4%
$40.63
+9.4%
-5.6%$5.30B$1.63B13.872,553News Coverage
Positive News
Earnings Report
WSFS
WSFS Financial
4.0404 of 5 stars
$57.89
-0.5%
$62.75
+8.4%
-1.3%$3.30B$1.40B13.222,309Trending News
Earnings Report

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This page (NASDAQ:PPBI) was last updated on 7/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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