SIVB vs. CBSH, EWBC, PB, SSB, HOMB, COLB, BPOP, UBSI, WTFC, and WAL
Should you be buying SVB Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SVB Financial Group include Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), East West Bancorp (EWBC), Prosperity Bancshares (PB), SouthState (SSB), Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) (HOMB), Columbia Banking System (COLB), Popular (BPOP), United Bankshares (UBSI), Wintrust Financial (WTFC), and Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
SVB Financial Group vs.
Commerce Bancshares (NASDAQ:CBSH) and SVB Financial Group (NASDAQ:SIVB) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, risk and media sentiment.
Commerce Bancshares has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SVB Financial Group has a beta of 1.57, meaning that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SVB Financial Group has higher revenue and earnings than Commerce Bancshares. SVB Financial Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Commerce Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
64.1% of Commerce Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.3% of SVB Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of Commerce Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of SVB Financial Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Commerce Bancshares had 6 more articles in the media than SVB Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Commerce Bancshares and 5 mentions for SVB Financial Group. Commerce Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat SVB Financial Group's score of 0.42 indicating that Commerce Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Commerce Bancshares currently has a consensus target price of $64.17, indicating a potential upside of 26.89%. SVB Financial Group has a consensus target price of $338.39, indicating a potential upside of 87,794.16%. Given SVB Financial Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe SVB Financial Group is more favorable than Commerce Bancshares.
Commerce Bancshares has a net margin of 29.71% compared to SVB Financial Group's net margin of 22.05%. Commerce Bancshares' return on equity of 19.18% beat SVB Financial Group's return on equity.
SVB Financial Group received 397 more outperform votes than Commerce Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.76% of users gave SVB Financial Group an outperform vote while only 46.59% of users gave Commerce Bancshares an outperform vote.
Summary
SVB Financial Group beats Commerce Bancshares on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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