SFBS vs. AFRM, BCH, SOFI, BSAC, ALLY, CIB, WF, GGAL, COOP, and QFIN
Should you be buying ServisFirst Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ServisFirst Bancshares include Affirm (AFRM), Banco de Chile (BCH), SoFi Technologies (SOFI), Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC), Ally Financial (ALLY), Bancolombia (CIB), Woori Financial Group (WF), Grupo Financiero Galicia (GGAL), Mr. Cooper Group (COOP), and Qifu Technology (QFIN). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
ServisFirst Bancshares vs.
Affirm (NASDAQ:AFRM) and ServisFirst Bancshares (NYSE:SFBS) are both business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
ServisFirst Bancshares received 119 more outperform votes than Affirm when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.64% of users gave ServisFirst Bancshares an outperform vote while only 41.26% of users gave Affirm an outperform vote.
69.3% of Affirm shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.3% of ServisFirst Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 11.8% of Affirm shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.7% of ServisFirst Bancshares shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Affirm presently has a consensus target price of $64.70, indicating a potential upside of 19.09%. ServisFirst Bancshares has a consensus target price of $87.50, indicating a potential upside of 18.39%. Given Affirm's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Affirm is more favorable than ServisFirst Bancshares.
ServisFirst Bancshares has a net margin of 23.16% compared to Affirm's net margin of -7.10%. ServisFirst Bancshares' return on equity of 14.81% beat Affirm's return on equity.
In the previous week, Affirm and Affirm both had 4 articles in the media. ServisFirst Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.67 beat Affirm's score of 0.74 indicating that ServisFirst Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Affirm has a beta of 3.58, indicating that its stock price is 258% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ServisFirst Bancshares has a beta of 0.83, indicating that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
ServisFirst Bancshares has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Affirm. Affirm is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ServisFirst Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
ServisFirst Bancshares beats Affirm on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:SFBS) was last updated on 6/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff