SSB vs. PB, OZK, HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, WBS, CBSH, and WAL
Should you be buying SouthState stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SouthState include Prosperity Bancshares (PB), Bank OZK (OZK), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), Webster Financial (WBS), Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), and Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Prosperity Bancshares (NYSE:PB) 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 media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.
SouthState received 182 more outperform votes than Prosperity Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.84% of users gave SouthState an outperform vote while only 47.54% of users gave Prosperity Bancshares an outperform vote.
80.7% of Prosperity Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of SouthState shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.3% of Prosperity Bancshares shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of SouthState shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, SouthState had 9 more articles in the media than Prosperity Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for SouthState and 2 mentions for Prosperity Bancshares. SouthState's average media sentiment score of 1.57 beat Prosperity Bancshares' score of 0.88 indicating that Prosperity Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SouthState has higher revenue and earnings than Prosperity Bancshares. SouthState is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Prosperity Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Prosperity Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $2.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. SouthState pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Prosperity Bancshares pays out 51.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SouthState pays out 33.9% 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. Prosperity Bancshares has raised its dividend for 26 consecutive years and SouthState has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years. Prosperity Bancshares is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Prosperity Bancshares presently has a consensus target price of $68.86, indicating a potential upside of 10.54%. SouthState has a consensus target price of $91.00, indicating a potential upside of 17.71%. Given Prosperity Bancshares' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe SouthState is more favorable than Prosperity Bancshares.
Prosperity Bancshares has a net margin of 24.50% compared to Prosperity Bancshares' net margin of 20.91%. Prosperity Bancshares' return on equity of 9.24% beat SouthState's return on equity.
Prosperity Bancshares has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SouthState has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Prosperity Bancshares beats SouthState on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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