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SouthState (SSB) Competitors

$102.37 -0.64 (-0.62%)
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SSB vs. RKT, BBD, SOFI, CRCL, KB, IX, BBDO, AFRM, SYF, and SHG

Should you be buying SouthState stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SouthState include Rocket Companies (RKT), Banco Bradesco (BBD), SoFi Technologies (SOFI), Circle Internet Group (CRCL), KB Financial Group (KB), Orix Corp Ads (IX), Banco Bradesco (BBDO), Affirm (AFRM), Synchrony Financial (SYF), and Shinhan Financial Group (SHG). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.

SouthState vs. Its Competitors

Rocket Companies (NYSE:RKT) and SouthState (NYSE:SSB) are both large-cap banking companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk and earnings.

SouthState has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Rocket Companies. Rocket Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SouthState, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Rocket Companies$5.10B8.29$29.37M-$0.05-401.86
SouthState$2.44B4.24$534.78M$6.7115.26

In the previous week, Rocket Companies had 20 more articles in the media than SouthState. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Rocket Companies and 0 mentions for SouthState. Rocket Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat SouthState's score of 0.00 indicating that Rocket Companies is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Rocket Companies Positive
SouthState Neutral

Rocket Companies has a beta of 2.29, meaning that its share price is 129% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SouthState has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Rocket Companies currently has a consensus price target of $15.81, suggesting a potential downside of 21.33%. Given Rocket Companies' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Rocket Companies is more favorable than SouthState.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Rocket Companies
2 Sell rating(s)
9 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.08
SouthState
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

4.6% of Rocket Companies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of SouthState shares are held by institutional investors. 92.6% of Rocket Companies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of SouthState shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

SouthState has a net margin of 19.27% compared to Rocket Companies' net margin of -0.01%. SouthState's return on equity of 10.23% beat Rocket Companies' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Rocket Companies-0.01% 3.18% 1.01%
SouthState 19.27%10.23%1.34%

Summary

Rocket Companies beats SouthState on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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SSB vs. The Competition

MetricSouthStateState Commercial Banks – Fed Reserve System IndustryFinancial SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$10.36B$2.47B$6.27B$21.29B
Dividend Yield2.33%2.18%4.31%3.48%
P/E Ratio15.2616.871,765.7429.62
Price / Sales4.242.721,363.7750.21
Price / Cash12.5012.8848.9818.12
Price / Book1.331.293.424.59
Net Income$534.78M$153.05M$1.23B$999.86M
7 Day Performance0.34%-0.63%-0.07%0.43%
1 Month Performance10.92%10.32%1.61%5.49%
1 Year PerformanceN/AN/A28.41%18.31%

SouthState Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SSB
SouthState
N/A$102.37
-0.6%
N/AN/A$10.36B$2.44B15.264,986
RKT
Rocket Companies
1.5824 of 5 stars
$17.79
-0.6%
$15.81
-11.1%
+4.9%$37.40B$5.10B-355.8014,200Positive News
Options Volume
BBD
Banco Bradesco
3.3513 of 5 stars
$3.10
-0.3%
$2.40
-22.6%
+13.0%$33.10B$37.55B8.8684,022Positive News
Short Interest ↓
SOFI
SoFi Technologies
2.5947 of 5 stars
$25.54
-1.9%
$19.35
-24.2%
+265.2%$30.58B$2.67B53.215,000
CRCL
Circle Internet Group
2.0293 of 5 stars
$132.23
+1.0%
$170.91
+29.3%
N/A$30.28BN/A-10,449.66900Analyst Forecast
KB
KB Financial Group
4.5251 of 5 stars
$78.63
-0.9%
N/A+26.9%$30.01B$27.12B7.55150Positive News
IX
Orix Corp Ads
2.4891 of 5 stars
$25.88
-1.0%
N/A+11.1%$29.54B$18.88B11.8433,982Positive News
BBDO
Banco Bradesco
1.4795 of 5 stars
$2.68
-1.7%
N/A+9.2%$28.63B$114.74B7.6488,400Positive News
AFRM
Affirm
1.8822 of 5 stars
$88.46
+10.6%
$77.35
-12.6%
+127.2%$28.54B$3.24B680.512,006Analyst Upgrade
High Trading Volume
SYF
Synchrony Financial
4.6388 of 5 stars
$76.43
-0.2%
$74.05
-3.1%
+59.6%$28.40B$16.05B9.2820,000Positive News
SHG
Shinhan Financial Group
4.1852 of 5 stars
$47.21
-1.7%
N/A+11.4%$22.93B$24.56B4.73190Positive News

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