SFST vs. CCB, FSUN, FBMS, SII, AMAL, PFC, CNOB, BFC, AMTB, 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), Firstsun Capital Bancorp (FSUN), First Bancshares (FBMS), Sprott (SII), Amalgamated Financial (AMAL), Premier Financial (PFC), ConnectOne Bancorp (CNOB), Bank First (BFC), Amerant Bancorp (AMTB), and MoneyLion (ML). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Southern First Bancshares vs.
Southern First Bancshares (NASDAQ:SFST) and Coastal Financial (NASDAQ:CCB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
75.0% of Southern First Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.2% of Coastal Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.6% of Southern First Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.8% of Coastal Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
Coastal Financial has a consensus target price of $93.00, indicating a potential upside of 3.83%. Given Coastal Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Coastal Financial is more favorable than Southern First Bancshares.
Southern First Bancshares has a beta of 0.83, indicating that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coastal Financial has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Coastal Financial had 2 more articles in the media than Southern First Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Coastal Financial and 1 mentions for Southern First Bancshares. Southern First Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Coastal Financial's score of 0.47 indicating that Southern First Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Southern First Bancshares received 183 more outperform votes than Coastal Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave Coastal Financial an outperform vote while only 52.79% of users gave Southern First Bancshares an outperform vote.
Southern First Bancshares has a net margin of 7.28% compared to Coastal Financial's net margin of 6.43%. Coastal Financial's return on equity of 14.98% beat Southern First Bancshares' return on equity.
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 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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