SBSI vs. EBC, INTR, FHB, DAVE, BUR, CLSK, PRK, LU, ENVA, and BFH
Should you be buying Southside Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Southside Bancshares include Eastern Bankshares (EBC), Inter & Co, Inc. (INTR), First Hawaiian (FHB), Dave (DAVE), Burford Capital (BUR), CleanSpark (CLSK), Park National (PRK), Lufax (LU), Enova International (ENVA), and Bread Financial (BFH). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Southside Bancshares vs. Its Competitors
Eastern Bankshares (NASDAQ:EBC) and Southside Bancshares (NYSE:SBSI) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, dividends, earnings, media sentiment and community ranking.
Eastern Bankshares has higher revenue and earnings than Southside Bancshares. Eastern Bankshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Southside Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Eastern Bankshares presently has a consensus price target of $19.25, suggesting a potential upside of 34.43%. Given Eastern Bankshares' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Eastern Bankshares is more favorable than Southside Bancshares.
Eastern Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Southside Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Eastern Bankshares pays out -80.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Southside Bancshares pays out 49.5% 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. Eastern Bankshares has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years and Southside Bancshares has increased its dividend for 30 consecutive years. Southside Bancshares is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Eastern Bankshares has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Southside Bancshares has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Eastern Bankshares received 26 more outperform votes than Southside Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.00% of users gave Eastern Bankshares an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Southside Bancshares an outperform vote.
71.7% of Eastern Bankshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.7% of Southside Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Eastern Bankshares shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.0% of Southside Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Eastern Bankshares had 2 more articles in the media than Southside Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Eastern Bankshares and 0 mentions for Southside Bancshares. Eastern Bankshares' average media sentiment score of 1.61 beat Southside Bancshares' score of 0.00 indicating that Eastern Bankshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Southside Bancshares has a net margin of 19.49% compared to Eastern Bankshares' net margin of -15.56%. Southside Bancshares' return on equity of 11.00% beat Eastern Bankshares' return on equity.
Summary
Eastern Bankshares beats Southside Bancshares on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NYSE:SBSI) was last updated on 6/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
