ServisFirst Bancshares (SFBS) Competitors

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

Do analysts prefer ALLY or SFBS?

Ally Financial presently has a consensus price target of $41.18, indicating a potential upside of 3.33%. ServisFirst Bancshares has a consensus price target of $64.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.64%. Given ServisFirst Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ally Financial is more favorable than ServisFirst Bancshares.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Ally Financial	3 Sell rating(s)	7 Hold rating(s)	8 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.28
ServisFirst Bancshares	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Is ALLY or SFBS a better dividend stock?

Ally Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. ServisFirst Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Ally Financial pays out 49.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ServisFirst Bancshares pays out 32.9% 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.

Which has better valuation and earnings, ALLY or SFBS?

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

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Ally Financial	$8.21B	1.48	$1.02B	$2.45	16.28
ServisFirst Bancshares	$843.66M	4.06	$206.85M	$3.65	17.21

Which has more volatility and risk, ALLY or SFBS?

Ally Financial has a beta of 1.42, indicating that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ServisFirst Bancshares has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is ALLY or SFBS more profitable?

ServisFirst Bancshares has a net margin of 22.31% compared to ServisFirst Bancshares' net margin of 10.59%. Ally Financial's return on equity of 14.65% beat ServisFirst Bancshares' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Ally Financial	10.59%	8.35%	0.48%
ServisFirst Bancshares	22.31%	14.65%	1.32%

Does the MarketBeat Community favor ALLY or SFBS?

Ally Financial received 521 more outperform votes than ServisFirst Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.46% of users gave Ally Financial an outperform vote while only 59.28% of users gave ServisFirst Bancshares an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Ally Financial	Outperform Votes 751 64.46%	Underperform Votes 414 35.54%
ServisFirst Bancshares	Outperform Votes 230 59.28%	Underperform Votes 158 40.72%

Does the media prefer ALLY or SFBS?

In the previous week, Ally Financial had 7 more articles in the media than ServisFirst Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Ally Financial and 1 mentions for ServisFirst Bancshares. Ally Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.66 beat ServisFirst Bancshares' score of 0.37 indicating that ServisFirst Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Ally Financial	3 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
ServisFirst Bancshares	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of ALLY or SFBS?

88.8% of Ally Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.3% of ServisFirst Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Ally Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of ServisFirst Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Ally Financial beats ServisFirst Bancshares on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.