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ServisFirst Bancshares (SFBS) Competitors

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$85.86 +0.76 (+0.89%)
(As of 12/20/2024 05:45 PM ET)

SFBS vs. CFG, SOFI, SHG, BSBR, ALLY, UWMC, BSAC, WF, CIB, and UPST

Should you be buying ServisFirst Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ServisFirst Bancshares include Citizens Financial Group (CFG), SoFi Technologies (SOFI), Shinhan Financial Group (SHG), Banco Santander (Brasil) (BSBR), Ally Financial (ALLY), UWM (UWMC), Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC), Woori Financial Group (WF), Bancolombia (CIB), and Upstart (UPST). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.

ServisFirst Bancshares vs.

ServisFirst Bancshares (NYSE:SFBS) and Citizens Financial Group (NYSE:CFG) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and risk.

ServisFirst Bancshares currently has a consensus price target of $85.00, indicating a potential downside of 1.00%. Citizens Financial Group has a consensus price target of $47.41, indicating a potential upside of 9.12%. Given Citizens Financial Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Citizens Financial Group is more favorable than ServisFirst Bancshares.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
ServisFirst Bancshares
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Citizens Financial Group
0 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
9 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.65

67.3% of ServisFirst Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.9% of Citizens Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.4% of ServisFirst Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Citizens Financial Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

ServisFirst Bancshares has a net margin of 21.16% compared to Citizens Financial Group's net margin of 10.37%. ServisFirst Bancshares' return on equity of 14.23% beat Citizens Financial Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
ServisFirst Bancshares21.16% 14.23% 1.33%
Citizens Financial Group 10.37%5.73%0.58%

Citizens Financial Group received 303 more outperform votes than ServisFirst Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.19% of users gave Citizens Financial Group an outperform vote while only 58.23% of users gave ServisFirst Bancshares an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
ServisFirst BancsharesOutperform Votes
230
58.23%
Underperform Votes
165
41.77%
Citizens Financial GroupOutperform Votes
533
62.19%
Underperform Votes
324
37.81%

ServisFirst Bancshares has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Citizens Financial Group has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Citizens Financial Group has higher revenue and earnings than ServisFirst Bancshares. Citizens Financial Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ServisFirst Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
ServisFirst Bancshares$443.96M10.55$206.85M$3.7422.96
Citizens Financial Group$7.81B2.45$1.61B$2.5417.11

In the previous week, Citizens Financial Group had 2 more articles in the media than ServisFirst Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Citizens Financial Group and 10 mentions for ServisFirst Bancshares. ServisFirst Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Citizens Financial Group's score of 0.71 indicating that ServisFirst Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
ServisFirst Bancshares
6 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Citizens Financial Group
5 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

ServisFirst Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.34 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Citizens Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. ServisFirst Bancshares pays out 35.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Citizens Financial Group pays out 66.1% 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.

Summary

Citizens Financial Group beats ServisFirst Bancshares on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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SFBS vs. The Competition

MetricServisFirst BancsharesState commercial banks IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$4.64B$3.10B$10.97B$19.18B
Dividend Yield1.39%3.54%9.85%3.59%
P/E Ratio22.9616.5628.4941.28
Price / Sales10.553.2848.6117.59
Price / Cash21.6611.2830.3121.28
Price / Book3.241.262.735.32
Net Income$206.85M$406.76M$1.03B$989.88M
7 Day Performance-7.68%-4.75%-2.88%-3.56%
1 Month Performance-7.92%-4.99%-2.86%-3.70%
1 Year Performance28.73%14.26%11.27%12.12%

ServisFirst Bancshares Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SFBS
ServisFirst Bancshares
2.283 of 5 stars
$85.86
+0.9%
$85.00
-1.0%
+29.6%$4.64B$443.96M22.96570Dividend Increase
Positive News
High Trading Volume
CFG
Citizens Financial Group
4.4331 of 5 stars
$45.62
-0.2%
$46.94
+2.9%
+34.2%$20.10B$12.19B17.9917,570Analyst Upgrade
Analyst Revision
SOFI
SoFi Technologies
2.2084 of 5 stars
$16.90
+4.0%
$10.50
-37.9%
+64.9%$18.34B$2.48B165.704,400Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Gap Down
SHG
Shinhan Financial Group
4.1237 of 5 stars
$34.83
-0.3%
N/A+13.4%$17.54B$25.42B5.48190Positive News
BSBR
Banco Santander (Brasil)
4.0716 of 5 stars
$4.00
-1.0%
$6.00
+50.0%
-36.5%$14.89B$45.72B5.3955,611News Coverage
Gap Up
ALLY
Ally Financial
4.9764 of 5 stars
$37.73
+0.1%
$41.73
+10.6%
+2.8%$11.50B$8.21B15.0711,100Analyst Forecast
UWMC
UWM
2.0582 of 5 stars
$6.06
+0.7%
$7.41
+22.2%
-17.1%$9.69B$835.67M-26.176,700Analyst Forecast
BSAC
Banco Santander-Chile
3.6865 of 5 stars
$19.41
-0.2%
$21.33
+9.9%
-0.9%$9.14B$6.07B11.059,229
WF
Woori Financial Group
4.1466 of 5 stars
$32.82
-0.5%
N/A+7.6%$8.12B$17.78B4.29150News Coverage
CIB
Bancolombia
2.2165 of 5 stars
$32.95
-0.7%
$33.67
+2.2%
+10.0%$7.92B$27.76T5.2634,756
UPST
Upstart
3.5282 of 5 stars
$83.96
-0.6%
$61.80
-26.4%
+56.8%$7.66B$513.56M-43.761,388

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This page (NYSE:SFBS) was last updated on 12/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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