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Great Southern Bancorp (GSBC) Competitors

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$57.16
+0.47 (+0.83%)
(As of 11/1/2024 ET)

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

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), BankUnited (BKU), First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC), Heartland Financial USA (HTLF), TowneBank (TOWN), and Bancorp (TBBK). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

Great Southern Bancorp vs.

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

Great Southern Bancorp has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Horizon Bancorp has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Horizon Bancorp had 4 more articles in the media than Great Southern Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Horizon Bancorp and 1 mentions for Great Southern Bancorp. Great Southern Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.88 beat Horizon Bancorp's score of 0.57 indicating that Great Southern Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Great Southern Bancorp
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
Horizon Bancorp
0 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

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 10.56% beat Horizon Bancorp's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Great Southern Bancorp17.21% 10.56% 1.03%
Horizon Bancorp 5.89%8.36%0.76%

Great Southern Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $52.00, indicating a potential downside of 9.03%. Horizon Bancorp has a consensus target price of $16.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.68%. Given Horizon Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Horizon Bancorp is more favorable than Great Southern Bancorp.

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

41.7% of Great Southern Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.5% of Horizon Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 27.6% of Great Southern Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Horizon Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

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

Great Southern Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Horizon Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Great Southern Bancorp pays out 31.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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. Horizon Bancorp has increased 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
Great Southern Bancorp$326.91M2.04$67.80M$5.1011.21
Horizon Bancorp$324.30M2.17$27.98M$0.4734.28

Summary

Horizon Bancorp beats Great Southern Bancorp on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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GSBC vs. The Competition

MetricGreat Southern BancorpState commercial banks IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$667.63M$3.04B$10.47B$8.53B
Dividend Yield2.74%3.71%9.99%4.14%
P/E Ratio11.2116.1242.5715.14
Price / Sales2.042.503,280.8693.53
Price / Cash10.8910.2330.2234.04
Price / Book1.181.193.995.01
Net Income$67.80M$405.86M$992.99M$225.46M
7 Day Performance0.47%0.66%-0.35%0.37%
1 Month Performance4.15%4.30%0.26%3.57%
1 Year Performance11.95%32.00%22.92%29.42%

Great Southern Bancorp Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
GSBC
Great Southern Bancorp
2.4461 of 5 stars
$57.16
+0.8%
$52.00
-9.0%
+15.6%$667.63M$326.91M11.211,352Positive News
HBNC
Horizon Bancorp
4.7733 of 5 stars
$16.14
-0.7%
$16.00
-0.9%
+70.1%$712.03M$185.07M37.53818Analyst Upgrade
WASH
Washington Trust Bancorp
2.233 of 5 stars
$35.50
+0.3%
$34.00
-4.2%
+46.1%$605.42M$191.57M13.30665Positive News
ABTX
Allegiance Bancshares
2.0879 of 5 stars
$41.63
-0.9%
N/A+0.0%$830.94M$261.75M11.25594Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
LBAI
Lakeland Bancorp
2.7933 of 5 stars
$13.43
+1.1%
$14.15
+5.4%
+18.7%$874.97M$516.18M10.49826Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
BMTC
Bryn Mawr Bank
2.8665 of 5 stars
$45.01
flat
N/A+0.0%$895.74M$249.65M12.47620Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
BKU
BankUnited
3.0737 of 5 stars
$35.43
-1.1%
$36.40
+2.7%
+59.9%$2.65B$983.26M15.681,616Short Interest ↑
FFBC
First Financial Bancorp.
3.6551 of 5 stars
$26.43
+0.4%
$27.33
+3.4%
+38.9%$2.52B$812.08M10.882,165
HTLF
Heartland Financial USA
3.9755 of 5 stars
$57.72
-0.6%
$45.60
-21.0%
+116.7%$2.47B$574.71M40.361,970Earnings Report
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
TOWN
TowneBank
4.3931 of 5 stars
$32.87
-0.7%
$36.00
+9.5%
+34.8%$2.47B$671.45M16.522,784
TBBK
Bancorp
3.397 of 5 stars
$49.77
-0.8%
$55.00
+10.5%
+34.2%$2.44B$621.60M12.57720Insider Selling

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This page (NASDAQ:GSBC) was last updated on 11/2/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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