SSB vs. BPOP, PB, OZK, FCNCA, HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, and WAL
Should you be buying SouthState stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SouthState include Popular (BPOP), Prosperity Bancshares (PB), Bank OZK (OZK), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), and Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
SouthState (NASDAQ:SSB) and Popular (NASDAQ:BPOP) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
89.8% of SouthState shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.3% of Popular shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of SouthState shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Popular shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Popular had 13 more articles in the media than SouthState. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Popular and 18 mentions for SouthState. Popular's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat SouthState's score of 0.71 indicating that Popular is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SouthState has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Popular has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SouthState presently has a consensus target price of $93.43, indicating a potential downside of 6.76%. Popular has a consensus target price of $105.22, indicating a potential upside of 2.38%. Given Popular's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Popular is more favorable than SouthState.
SouthState has a net margin of 20.84% compared to Popular's net margin of 12.20%. Popular's return on equity of 12.00% beat SouthState's return on equity.
SouthState pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Popular pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. SouthState pays out 33.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Popular pays out 36.8% 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.
SouthState received 41 more outperform votes than Popular when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.36% of users gave Popular an outperform vote while only 61.73% of users gave SouthState an outperform vote.
Popular has higher revenue and earnings than SouthState. Popular is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SouthState, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Popular beats SouthState on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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