SFST vs. BFC, QCRH, OBK, OBNK, FBMS, SUPV, PFC, FSUN, ML, and TRIN
Should you be buying Southern First Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Southern First Bancshares include Bank First (BFC), QCR (QCRH), Origin Bancorp (OBK), Origin Bancorp (OBNK), First Bancshares (FBMS), Grupo Supervielle (SUPV), Premier Financial (PFC), Firstsun Capital Bancorp (FSUN), MoneyLion (ML), and Trinity Capital (TRIN). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Southern First Bancshares vs. Its Competitors
Bank First (NASDAQ:BFC) and Southern First Bancshares (NASDAQ:SFST) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, risk and earnings.
Bank First has a beta of 0.39, suggesting that its share price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Southern First Bancshares has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Bank First has higher revenue and earnings than Southern First Bancshares. Southern First Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bank First, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Bank First had 1 more articles in the media than Southern First Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Bank First and 4 mentions for Southern First Bancshares. Bank First's average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat Southern First Bancshares' score of 1.22 indicating that Bank First is being referred to more favorably in the media.
30.0% of Bank First shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.0% of Southern First Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 3.4% of Bank First shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.1% of Southern First Bancshares shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Southern First Bancshares received 185 more outperform votes than Bank First when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.91% of users gave Southern First Bancshares an outperform vote while only 45.45% of users gave Bank First an outperform vote.
Bank First has a net margin of 29.00% compared to Southern First Bancshares' net margin of 7.28%. Bank First's return on equity of 10.53% beat Southern First Bancshares' return on equity.
Bank First presently has a consensus price target of $120.50, indicating a potential upside of 7.57%. Southern First Bancshares has a consensus price target of $43.00, indicating a potential upside of 20.25%. Given Southern First Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Southern First Bancshares is more favorable than Bank First.
Summary
Bank First beats Southern First Bancshares on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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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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This page (NASDAQ:SFST) was last updated on 6/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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