Fidelity Southern (LION) Competitors

SouthState (NASDAQ:SSB) and Fidelity Southern (NASDAQ:LION) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Is SSB or LION more profitable?

SouthState has a net margin of 21.24% compared to Fidelity Southern's net margin of 0.00%. SouthState's return on equity of 9.41% beat Fidelity Southern's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
SouthState	21.24%	9.41%	1.17%
Fidelity Southern	N/A	N/A	N/A

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of SSB or LION?

89.8% of SouthState shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of SouthState shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.4% of Fidelity Southern shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer SSB or LION?

SouthState received 278 more outperform votes than Fidelity Southern when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.48% of users gave SouthState an outperform vote while only 59.62% of users gave Fidelity Southern an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
SouthState	Outperform Votes 498 61.48%	Underperform Votes 312 38.52%
Fidelity Southern	Outperform Votes 220 59.62%	Underperform Votes 149 40.38%

Which has higher valuation and earnings, SSB or LION?

SouthState has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Fidelity Southern.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
SouthState	$1.65B	4.64	$494.31M	$6.48	15.46
Fidelity Southern	$2.99B	0.68	-$93.50M	N/A	N/A

Does the media favor SSB or LION?

In the previous week, SouthState had 6 more articles in the media than Fidelity Southern. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for SouthState and 0 mentions for Fidelity Southern. SouthState's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Fidelity Southern's score of 0.00 indicating that SouthState is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
SouthState	Positive
Fidelity Southern	Neutral

Do analysts rate SSB or LION?

SouthState presently has a consensus target price of $109.78, indicating a potential upside of 9.55%. Fidelity Southern has a consensus target price of $11.00, indicating a potential upside of 55.81%. Given Fidelity Southern's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Fidelity Southern is more favorable than SouthState.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
SouthState	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67
Fidelity Southern	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Summary

SouthState beats Fidelity Southern on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.