SSB vs. WTFC, PB, BPOP, WAL, CBSH, HOMB, UBSI, GBCI, FFIN, and COLB
Should you be buying SouthState stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SouthState include Wintrust Financial (WTFC), Prosperity Bancshares (PB), Popular (BPOP), Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL), Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) (HOMB), United Bankshares (UBSI), Glacier Bancorp (GBCI), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN), and Columbia Banking System (COLB). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
SouthState (NASDAQ:SSB) and Wintrust Financial (NASDAQ:WTFC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, earnings and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, SouthState had 14 more articles in the media than Wintrust Financial. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for SouthState and 6 mentions for Wintrust Financial. Wintrust Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat SouthState's score of 0.51 indicating that Wintrust Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Wintrust Financial has higher revenue and earnings than SouthState. Wintrust Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SouthState, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
89.8% of SouthState shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.5% of Wintrust Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of SouthState shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Wintrust Financial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
SouthState received 28 more outperform votes than Wintrust Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.69% of users gave SouthState an outperform vote while only 61.50% of users gave Wintrust Financial an outperform vote.
SouthState presently has a consensus target price of $88.17, indicating a potential upside of 12.64%. Wintrust Financial has a consensus target price of $112.33, indicating a potential upside of 12.27%. Given SouthState's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe SouthState is more favorable than Wintrust Financial.
SouthState has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wintrust Financial has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SouthState has a net margin of 20.91% compared to Wintrust Financial's net margin of 17.86%. Wintrust Financial's return on equity of 13.09% beat SouthState's return on equity.
SouthState pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Wintrust Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. SouthState pays out 33.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Wintrust Financial pays out 18.6% 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
Wintrust Financial beats SouthState on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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