PB vs. SSB, WTFC, BPOP, WAL, HOMB, CBSH, UBSI, FFIN, GBCI, and COLB
Should you be buying Prosperity Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Prosperity Bancshares include SouthState (SSB), Wintrust Financial (WTFC), Popular (BPOP), Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL), Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) (HOMB), Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), United Bankshares (UBSI), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN), Glacier Bancorp (GBCI), and Columbia Banking System (COLB). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Prosperity Bancshares (NYSE:PB) and SouthState (NASDAQ:SSB) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, valuation, risk, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Prosperity Bancshares has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SouthState has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SouthState has higher revenue and earnings than Prosperity Bancshares. SouthState is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Prosperity Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Prosperity Bancshares has a net margin of 24.50% compared to SouthState's net margin of 20.91%. SouthState's return on equity of 9.24% beat Prosperity Bancshares' return on equity.
SouthState received 179 more outperform votes than Prosperity Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.69% of users gave SouthState an outperform vote while only 47.54% of users gave Prosperity Bancshares an outperform vote.
Prosperity Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $2.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. SouthState pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Prosperity Bancshares pays out 51.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SouthState pays out 33.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
In the previous week, Prosperity Bancshares had 2 more articles in the media than SouthState. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Prosperity Bancshares and 4 mentions for SouthState. SouthState's average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat Prosperity Bancshares' score of 1.14 indicating that SouthState is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
80.7% of Prosperity Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of SouthState shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.3% of Prosperity Bancshares shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of SouthState shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Prosperity Bancshares currently has a consensus target price of $68.86, indicating a potential upside of 5.73%. SouthState has a consensus target price of $88.17, indicating a potential upside of 9.05%. Given SouthState's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe SouthState is more favorable than Prosperity Bancshares.
Summary
Prosperity Bancshares beats SouthState on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding PB and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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