SFST vs. CCB, FBMS, OBK, FSUN, SII, AMAL, OBNK, LX, BFC, and ML
Should you be buying Southern First Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Southern First Bancshares include Coastal Financial (CCB), First Bancshares (FBMS), Origin Bancorp (OBK), Firstsun Capital Bancorp (FSUN), Sprott (SII), Amalgamated Financial (AMAL), Origin Bancorp (OBNK), LexinFintech (LX), Bank First (BFC), and MoneyLion (ML). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Southern First Bancshares vs.
Coastal Financial (NASDAQ:CCB) and Southern First Bancshares (NASDAQ:SFST) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Coastal Financial presently has a consensus target price of $81.67, indicating a potential downside of 3.03%. Given Coastal Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Coastal Financial is more favorable than Southern First Bancshares.
Southern First Bancshares has a net margin of 6.67% compared to Coastal Financial's net margin of 5.98%. Coastal Financial's return on equity of 13.86% beat Southern First Bancshares' return on equity.
Coastal Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Southern First Bancshares. Southern First Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Coastal Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Coastal Financial had 5 more articles in the media than Southern First Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Coastal Financial and 1 mentions for Southern First Bancshares. Southern First Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.82 beat Coastal Financial's score of 1.07 indicating that Southern First Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Coastal Financial has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Southern First Bancshares has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
59.2% of Coastal Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.0% of Southern First Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 16.8% of Coastal Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.6% of Southern First Bancshares shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Southern First Bancshares received 185 more outperform votes than Coastal Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.64% of users gave Coastal Financial an outperform vote while only 52.79% of users gave Southern First Bancshares an outperform vote.
Summary
Coastal Financial beats Southern First Bancshares on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:SFST) was last updated on 1/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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