SFBS vs. BCH, SOFI, BSAC, ALLY, CIB, WF, GGAL, COOP, UWMC, and QFIN
Should you be buying ServisFirst Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ServisFirst Bancshares include Banco de Chile (BCH), SoFi Technologies (SOFI), Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC), Ally Financial (ALLY), Bancolombia (CIB), Woori Financial Group (WF), Grupo Financiero Galicia (GGAL), Mr. Cooper Group (COOP), UWM (UWMC), and Qifu Technology (QFIN). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
ServisFirst Bancshares vs. Its Competitors
ServisFirst Bancshares (NYSE:SFBS) and Banco de Chile (NYSE:BCH) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, earnings, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends and risk.
67.3% of ServisFirst Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.2% of Banco de Chile shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.7% of ServisFirst Bancshares shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of Banco de Chile shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
ServisFirst Bancshares presently has a consensus target price of $87.50, suggesting a potential upside of 18.07%. Banco de Chile has a consensus target price of $23.00, suggesting a potential downside of 26.16%. Given ServisFirst Bancshares' higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe ServisFirst Bancshares is more favorable than Banco de Chile.
Banco de Chile received 42 more outperform votes than ServisFirst Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.64% of users gave ServisFirst Bancshares an outperform vote while only 57.26% of users gave Banco de Chile an outperform vote.
Banco de Chile has higher revenue and earnings than ServisFirst Bancshares. Banco de Chile is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ServisFirst Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Banco de Chile has a net margin of 29.47% compared to ServisFirst Bancshares' net margin of 23.16%. Banco de Chile's return on equity of 21.37% beat ServisFirst Bancshares' return on equity.
In the previous week, ServisFirst Bancshares and ServisFirst Bancshares both had 5 articles in the media. ServisFirst Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.69 beat Banco de Chile's score of 0.65 indicating that ServisFirst Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
ServisFirst Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.34 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Banco de Chile pays an annual dividend of $1.57 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. ServisFirst Bancshares pays out 30.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Banco de Chile pays out 54.9% 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. ServisFirst Bancshares has raised its dividend for 10 consecutive years.
ServisFirst Bancshares has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Banco de Chile has a beta of 0.26, indicating that its stock price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
ServisFirst Bancshares beats Banco de Chile on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NYSE:SFBS) was last updated on 6/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
