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South Plains Financial (SPFI) Competitors

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$35.24 -0.11 (-0.31%)
Closing price 05/22/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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SPFI vs. PPBI, FINV, FBK, NTB, CASH, NIC, CUBI, PWP, CLBK, and HUT

Should you be buying South Plains Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of South Plains Financial include Pacific Premier Bancorp (PPBI), FinVolution Group (FINV), FB Financial (FBK), Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son (NTB), Pathward Financial (CASH), Nicolet Bankshares (NIC), Customers Bancorp (CUBI), Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP), Columbia Financial (CLBK), and Hut 8 (HUT). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.

South Plains Financial vs.

Pacific Premier Bancorp (NASDAQ:PPBI) and South Plains Financial (NASDAQ:SPFI) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, profitability, valuation and risk.

In the previous week, Pacific Premier Bancorp had 6 more articles in the media than South Plains Financial. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Pacific Premier Bancorp and 0 mentions for South Plains Financial. Pacific Premier Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat South Plains Financial's score of 0.00 indicating that Pacific Premier Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Pacific Premier Bancorp Positive
South Plains Financial Neutral

Pacific Premier Bancorp has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, South Plains Financial has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Pacific Premier Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $27.25, indicating a potential upside of 28.72%. South Plains Financial has a consensus price target of $41.50, indicating a potential upside of 17.76%. Given Pacific Premier Bancorp's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Pacific Premier Bancorp is more favorable than South Plains Financial.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Pacific Premier Bancorp
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.25
South Plains Financial
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Pacific Premier Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than South Plains Financial. South Plains Financial 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$541.46M3.79$158.80M$1.5213.93
South Plains Financial$191.62M2.98$49.72M$3.0011.75

Pacific Premier Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. South Plains Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. 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. South Plains Financial pays out 20.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. South Plains Financial has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years.

Pacific Premier Bancorp received 297 more outperform votes than South Plains Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.52% of users gave Pacific Premier Bancorp an outperform vote while only 56.82% of users gave South Plains Financial an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Pacific Premier BancorpOutperform Votes
347
61.52%
Underperform Votes
217
38.48%
South Plains FinancialOutperform Votes
50
56.82%
Underperform Votes
38
43.18%

93.1% of Pacific Premier Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.0% of South Plains Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Pacific Premier Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 24.6% of South Plains Financial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Pacific Premier Bancorp has a net margin of 17.54% compared to South Plains Financial's net margin of 17.20%. South Plains Financial's return on equity of 11.75% beat Pacific Premier Bancorp's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Pacific Premier Bancorp17.54% 5.43% 0.87%
South Plains Financial 17.20%11.75%1.17%

Summary

Pacific Premier Bancorp beats South Plains Financial on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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SPFI vs. The Competition

MetricSouth Plains FinancialState commercial banks IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$571.88M$3.24B$11.47B$8.39B
Dividend Yield1.65%3.70%5.45%4.11%
P/E Ratio12.0723.7222.4219.71
Price / Sales2.983.0627.63120.67
Price / Cash14.7610.6317.6234.62
Price / Book1.431.192.774.50
Net Income$49.72M$372.21M$1.03B$248.22M
7 Day Performance-2.87%-2.60%-1.34%-0.78%
1 Month Performance6.69%3.15%5.24%11.53%
1 Year Performance30.66%17.69%538.04%8.99%

South Plains Financial Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SPFI
South Plains Financial
4.0232 of 5 stars
$35.24
-0.3%
$41.50
+17.8%
+27.8%$571.88M$191.62M12.07680
PPBI
Pacific Premier Bancorp
4.3996 of 5 stars
$22.86
+7.1%
$27.25
+19.2%
-8.2%$2.22B$541.46M13.941,430Positive News
Analyst Forecast
FINV
FinVolution Group
2.9573 of 5 stars
$8.64
+4.1%
$11.40
+31.9%
+76.6%$2.19B$13.09B7.454,260Earnings Report
FBK
FB Financial
4.4385 of 5 stars
$46.34
+2.5%
$53.80
+16.1%
+15.2%$2.13B$482.15M18.761,760News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
NTB
Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son
3.0515 of 5 stars
$42.16
+2.6%
$44.67
+5.9%
+22.0%$2.00B$587.36M8.931,340News Coverage
Positive News
CASH
Pathward Financial
3.223 of 5 stars
$83.08
+1.0%
$92.00
+10.7%
+41.1%$1.98B$616.00M12.111,150Positive News
Dividend Announcement
NIC
Nicolet Bankshares
1.8828 of 5 stars
$122.66
+2.2%
$119.25
-2.8%
+49.0%$1.85B$356.32M15.28860Positive News
Dividend Increase
CUBI
Customers Bancorp
3.0431 of 5 stars
$54.23
+4.3%
$63.80
+17.7%
+8.3%$1.71B$648.24M10.67640Analyst Downgrade
Gap Up
PWP
Perella Weinberg Partners
2.1606 of 5 stars
$18.88
+6.8%
$23.00
+21.8%
+14.1%$1.64B$987.74M-11.95600Positive News
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
CLBK
Columbia Financial
1.0522 of 5 stars
$15.57
+2.0%
$16.00
+2.8%
-9.7%$1.63B$189.02M-129.75750Positive News
Gap Up
HUT
Hut 8
3.4562 of 5 stars
$15.52
+11.7%
$26.00
+67.5%
+73.4%$1.62B$254.83M0.00219Positive News
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
High Trading Volume

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This page (NASDAQ:SPFI) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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