PB vs. SSB, WTFC, BPOP, WAL, HOMB, UBSI, CBSH, GBCI, FFIN, 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), United Bankshares (UBSI), Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), Glacier Bancorp (GBCI), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN), 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 superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, earnings, profitability, valuation and institutional ownership.
SouthState received 178 more outperform votes than Prosperity Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.72% of users gave SouthState an outperform vote while only 47.54% of users gave Prosperity Bancshares an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Prosperity Bancshares had 9 more articles in the media than SouthState. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Prosperity Bancshares and 12 mentions for SouthState. Prosperity Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat SouthState's score of 0.41 indicating that Prosperity Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Prosperity Bancshares has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SouthState has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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 hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
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 presently has a consensus price target of $68.79, indicating a potential upside of 8.25%. SouthState has a consensus price target of $87.80, indicating a potential upside of 12.64%. Given SouthState's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe SouthState is more favorable than Prosperity Bancshares.
Prosperity Bancshares has a net margin of 24.50% compared to SouthState's net margin of 20.91%. SouthState's return on equity of 9.32% beat Prosperity Bancshares' return on equity.
Prosperity Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $2.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. SouthState pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. 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.
Summary
Prosperity Bancshares beats SouthState on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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