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Popular vs SouthState Bank

BPOP and SSB side by side, both in commercial banks. Figures are trailing twelve months unless noted, from SEC filings and end-of-day prices.

How BPOP and SSB compare

Popular and SouthState Bank are about the same size, with market caps of $10.0B and $10.2B.

On earnings, Popular is cheaper: it trades at 10.6× trailing earnings, against 11.2× for SouthState Bank.

SouthState Bank grew revenue faster over the last twelve months (10.7% versus 9.6% for Popular).

Popular keeps more of each dollar of sales as profit, with a net margin of 37.9% compared with 34.3% at SouthState Bank.

Both pay dividends: Popular yields 2.0% and SouthState Bank 2.3%.

SouthState Bank scores higher on the StockData Score (18 against 16 for Popular), which adds up 30 checks on valuation, growth, past performance, financial health and dividends.

Key numbers

A dot marks the better figure where higher or lower is clearly better.

MetricBPOPSSB
Size and price
Market cap$10.0B$10.2B
Share price$156.61$105.17
Change, 1 year43.4%19.0%
Change, 5 years88.9%27.4%
Beta (5Y)0.850.81
Employees9,4276,190
StockData Score
Total score1618 (better)
Valuation score24 (better)
Growth score2 (better)1
Performance score5 (better)4
Health score35 (better)
Dividend score44
Valuation
P/E10.6× (better)11.2×
P/S3.9×3.8× (better)
P/B1.6×1.1× (better)
P/FCF12.4×6.8× (better)
PEG–1.85
FCF yield8.1%14.7% (better)
Fair value$148.60$114.50
Margin of safety−5.4%8.2% (better)
Growth
Revenue growth (TTM)9.6%10.7% (better)
Revenue growth, 5Y average6.2%18.7% (better)
Net income growth (TTM)34.4% (better)33.4%
EPS growth (TTM)43.5% (better)29.2%
EPS growth, 5Y average15.9%29.2% (better)
Profitability
Net margin37.9% (better)34.3%
FCF margin31.6%55.3% (better)
Return on equity15.6% (better)10.3%
Financial health
Altman Z-score0.21 (better)0.20
Piotroski F-score7 (better)5
Dividends and buybacks
Dividend yield2.0%2.3% (better)
Payout ratio20.4%26.1%
Years of dividend growth714 (better)
Dividend growth, 5Y average12.6% (better)3.9%
Buyback yield–4.5%
Shareholder yield2.0%6.8% (better)
Ownership
Held by institutions93.1%88.0%
Held by insiders2.0%1.3%
Insider net buying, 12 months−$17.3M−$7.7M (better)
Short interest, % of float–3.3%

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