Fidelity Southern (LION) Competitors

Fidelity Southern (NASDAQ:LION) and Synovus Financial (NYSE:SNV) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, LION or SNV?

Synovus Financial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Fidelity Southern.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Fidelity Southern	$2.99B	0.70	-$93.50M	N/A	N/A
Synovus Financial	$1.99B	4.02	$482.46M	$3.05	18.51

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer LION or SNV?

Synovus Financial received 242 more outperform votes than Fidelity Southern when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.62% of users gave Fidelity Southern an outperform vote while only 57.11% of users gave Synovus Financial an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Fidelity Southern	Outperform Votes 220 59.62%	Underperform Votes 149 40.38%
Synovus Financial	Outperform Votes 462 57.11%	Underperform Votes 347 42.89%

Does the media favor LION or SNV?

In the previous week, Synovus Financial had 9 more articles in the media than Fidelity Southern. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Synovus Financial and 1 mentions for Fidelity Southern. Synovus Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Fidelity Southern's score of 0.00 indicating that Synovus Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Fidelity Southern	Neutral
Synovus Financial	Positive

Is LION or SNV more profitable?

Synovus Financial has a net margin of 14.05% compared to Fidelity Southern's net margin of 0.00%. Synovus Financial's return on equity of 14.70% beat Fidelity Southern's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Fidelity Southern	N/A	N/A	N/A
Synovus Financial	14.05%	14.70%	1.14%

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of LION or SNV?

83.8% of Synovus Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.4% of Fidelity Southern shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Synovus Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Do analysts prefer LION or SNV?

Fidelity Southern presently has a consensus price target of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 50.95%. Synovus Financial has a consensus price target of $58.44, suggesting a potential upside of 3.51%. Given Fidelity Southern's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Fidelity Southern is more favorable than Synovus Financial.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Fidelity Southern	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Synovus Financial	0 Sell rating(s)	6 Hold rating(s)	12 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67

Summary

Synovus Financial beats Fidelity Southern on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.