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Great Southern Bancorp (GSBC) Competitors

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$61.79 +0.10 (+0.16%)
(As of 11/20/2024 ET)

GSBC vs. HBNC, WASH, ABTX, LBAI, BMTC, HTLF, FFBC, TOWN, TBBK, and FRME

Should you be buying Great Southern Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Great Southern Bancorp include Horizon Bancorp (HBNC), Washington Trust Bancorp (WASH), Allegiance Bancshares (ABTX), Lakeland Bancorp (LBAI), Bryn Mawr Bank (BMTC), Heartland Financial USA (HTLF), First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC), TowneBank (TOWN), Bancorp (TBBK), and First Merchants (FRME). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

Great Southern Bancorp vs.

Horizon Bancorp (NASDAQ:HBNC) and Great Southern Bancorp (NASDAQ:GSBC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Horizon Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $16.00, indicating a potential downside of 11.46%. Great Southern Bancorp has a consensus price target of $52.00, indicating a potential downside of 15.84%. Given Horizon Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Horizon Bancorp is more favorable than Great Southern Bancorp.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Horizon Bancorp
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50
Great Southern Bancorp
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

Horizon Bancorp received 80 more outperform votes than Great Southern Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.84% of users gave Horizon Bancorp an outperform vote while only 55.42% of users gave Great Southern Bancorp an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Horizon BancorpOutperform Votes
310
57.84%
Underperform Votes
226
42.16%
Great Southern BancorpOutperform Votes
230
55.42%
Underperform Votes
185
44.58%

Great Southern Bancorp has a net margin of 17.21% compared to Horizon Bancorp's net margin of 5.89%. Great Southern Bancorp's return on equity of 10.36% beat Horizon Bancorp's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Horizon Bancorp5.89% 8.27% 0.76%
Great Southern Bancorp 17.21%10.36%1.02%

In the previous week, Great Southern Bancorp had 7 more articles in the media than Horizon Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Great Southern Bancorp and 0 mentions for Horizon Bancorp. Great Southern Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Horizon Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Great Southern Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Horizon Bancorp Neutral
Great Southern Bancorp Positive

64.5% of Horizon Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.7% of Great Southern Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.8% of Horizon Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 27.7% of Great Southern Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Horizon Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Great Southern Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Horizon Bancorp pays out 136.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Great Southern Bancorp pays out 31.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Horizon Bancorp has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years. Horizon Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Great Southern Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Horizon Bancorp. Great Southern Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Horizon Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Horizon Bancorp$185.07M4.27$27.98M$0.4738.45
Great Southern Bancorp$326.91M2.21$67.80M$5.1012.12

Horizon Bancorp has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Great Southern Bancorp has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Horizon Bancorp beats Great Southern Bancorp on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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GSBC vs. The Competition

MetricGreat Southern BancorpState commercial banks IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$721.71M$3.16B$10.56B$8.82B
Dividend Yield2.53%3.50%10.16%4.07%
P/E Ratio12.1217.3649.3017.81
Price / Sales2.212.813,460.6574.38
Price / Cash11.7911.1530.5032.53
Price / Book1.281.322.764.68
Net Income$67.80M$405.80M$995.76M$226.08M
7 Day Performance-2.83%-1.21%-0.34%-2.04%
1 Month Performance5.80%6.08%1.82%0.06%
1 Year Performance17.85%33.93%23.83%24.60%

Great Southern Bancorp Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
GSBC
Great Southern Bancorp
2.6825 of 5 stars
$61.79
+0.2%
$52.00
-15.8%
+17.9%$720.22M$326.91M12.121,352Insider Trade
Short Interest ↓
HBNC
Horizon Bancorp
4.0958 of 5 stars
$18.07
+0.2%
$16.00
-11.5%
+60.8%$788.62M$324.30M38.45818
WASH
Washington Trust Bancorp
2.5529 of 5 stars
$36.40
-1.2%
$34.00
-6.6%
+34.5%$628.84M$364.80M13.63665Positive News
ABTX
Allegiance Bancshares
N/A$41.63
-0.9%
N/A+0.0%$830.94M$261.75M11.25594Analyst Forecast
LBAI
Lakeland Bancorp
2.6944 of 5 stars
$13.43
+1.1%
$14.15
+5.4%
+5.3%$874.97M$516.18M10.49826High Trading Volume
BMTC
Bryn Mawr Bank
N/A$45.01
flat
N/A+0.0%$895.74M$249.65M12.47620Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
HTLF
Heartland Financial USA
4.2073 of 5 stars
$64.80
-0.7%
$45.60
-29.6%
+108.8%$2.80B$932.87M36.201,970
FFBC
First Financial Bancorp.
3.84 of 5 stars
$28.67
-0.4%
$27.33
-4.7%
+38.2%$2.74B$1.12B12.362,165
TOWN
TowneBank
3.3353 of 5 stars
$34.91
-1.4%
$36.00
+3.1%
+30.0%$2.66B$941.58M17.542,784
TBBK
Bancorp
2.8304 of 5 stars
$54.98
+0.1%
$55.00
+0.0%
+39.9%$2.63B$621.60M13.88720
FRME
First Merchants
4.3513 of 5 stars
$42.72
-0.3%
$41.60
-2.6%
+34.9%$2.51B$626.09M14.102,162

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This page (NASDAQ:GSBC) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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