SPFI vs. PPBI, CLSK, NTB, LX, CASH, PWP, MBIN, NIC, CUBI, and CLBK
Should you be buying South Plains Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of South Plains Financial include Pacific Premier Bancorp (PPBI), CleanSpark (CLSK), Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son (NTB), LexinFintech (LX), Pathward Financial (CASH), Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP), Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), Nicolet Bankshares (NIC), Customers Bancorp (CUBI), and Columbia Financial (CLBK). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
South Plains Financial vs.
South Plains Financial (NASDAQ:SPFI) and Pacific Premier Bancorp (NASDAQ:PPBI) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, risk, community ranking, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Pacific Premier Bancorp received 298 more outperform votes than South Plains Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.08% of users gave Pacific Premier Bancorp an outperform vote while only 56.32% of users gave South Plains Financial an outperform vote.
South Plains Financial currently has a consensus price target of $42.67, indicating a potential upside of 26.20%. Pacific Premier Bancorp has a consensus price target of $27.00, indicating a potential upside of 23.74%. Given South Plains Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe South Plains Financial is more favorable than Pacific Premier Bancorp.
Pacific Premier Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than South Plains Financial. South Plains Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pacific Premier Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Pacific Premier Bancorp had 8 more articles in the media than South Plains Financial. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Pacific Premier Bancorp and 2 mentions for South Plains Financial. Pacific Premier Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat South Plains Financial's score of 0.44 indicating that Pacific Premier Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
South Plains Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Pacific Premier Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. South Plains Financial pays out 20.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pacific Premier Bancorp pays out 80.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
South Plains Financial has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pacific Premier Bancorp has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
55.0% of South Plains Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.1% of Pacific Premier Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 25.4% of South Plains Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Pacific Premier Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Pacific Premier Bancorp has a net margin of 17.54% compared to South Plains Financial's net margin of 17.20%. South Plains Financial's return on equity of 11.75% beat Pacific Premier Bancorp's return on equity.
Summary
Pacific Premier Bancorp beats South Plains Financial on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:SPFI) was last updated on 3/27/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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