SSB vs. WTFC, BPOP, WAL, PB, CBSH, HOMB, UBSI, FFIN, GBCI, and COLB
Should you be buying SouthState stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SouthState include Wintrust Financial (WTFC), Popular (BPOP), Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL), Prosperity Bancshares (PB), Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) (HOMB), United Bankshares (UBSI), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN), Glacier Bancorp (GBCI), and Columbia Banking System (COLB). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Wintrust Financial (NASDAQ:WTFC) and SouthState (NASDAQ:SSB) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and earnings.
93.5% of Wintrust Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of SouthState shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Wintrust Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of SouthState shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Wintrust Financial has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SouthState has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Wintrust Financial had 25 more articles in the media than SouthState. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Wintrust Financial and 15 mentions for SouthState. SouthState's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Wintrust Financial's score of 0.02 indicating that Wintrust Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Wintrust Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. SouthState pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Wintrust Financial pays out 18.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SouthState pays out 32.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Wintrust Financial has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years and SouthState has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years. SouthState is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Wintrust Financial presently has a consensus target price of $112.33, indicating a potential upside of 13.27%. SouthState has a consensus target price of $87.80, indicating a potential upside of 11.01%. Given SouthState's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Wintrust Financial is more favorable than SouthState.
Wintrust Financial has higher revenue and earnings than SouthState. Wintrust Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SouthState, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SouthState has a net margin of 22.15% compared to SouthState's net margin of 17.86%. SouthState's return on equity of 13.09% beat Wintrust Financial's return on equity.
SouthState received 27 more outperform votes than Wintrust Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.72% of users gave SouthState an outperform vote while only 61.50% of users gave Wintrust Financial an outperform vote.
Summary
Wintrust Financial beats SouthState on 14 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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