Southern First Ownership
| SFST Stock | USD 33.73 0.43 1.26% |
Shares in Circulation | First Issued 1999-12-31 | Previous Quarter 8.1 M | Current Value 8.1 M | Avarage Shares Outstanding 5.3 M | Quarterly Volatility 2 M |
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Southern Stock Ownership Analysis
About 83.0% of the company shares are owned by institutional investors. The company has price-to-book ratio of 0.84. Typically companies with comparable Price to Book (P/B) are able to outperform the market in the long run. Southern First Bancshares has Price/Earnings To Growth (PEG) ratio of 2.31. The entity had not issued any dividends in recent years. The firm had 11:10 split on the 30th of January 2013. Southern First Bancshares, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Southern First Bank that provides various banking products and services to general public in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. The company was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina. Southern First operates under BanksRegional classification in the United States and is traded on NASDAQ Exchange. It employs 278 people. To find out more about Southern First Bancshares contact Arthur Seaver at 864 679 9000 or learn more at https://www.southernfirst.com.Besides selling stocks to institutional investors, Southern First also allocates a substantial amount of its earnings to a pull of share-based compensation to be paid out to its employees, managers, executives, and members of the board of directors. Share-Based compensation (also sometimes called Stock-Based Compensation) is a way of paying different Southern First's stakeholders with equity in the business. It is typically used as a motivation factor for employees to contribute beyond their regular compensation (salary and bonus). It is also used as a tool to align Southern First's strategic interests with those of the company's shareholders. Shares issued to employees are usually subject to a vesting period before they are earned and sold.
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Southern First Insider Trades History
About 7.0% of Southern First Bancshares are currently held by insiders. Unlike Southern First's institutional investors, corporate insiders most likely have a limit on the maximum percentage of share ownership. This is done to align insiders' influence against Southern First's private investors even though both sides will benefit from rising prices or experience loss when the share price declines. The good rule to have in mind is that the maximum share ownership percentage of the corporate insiders should not surpass 25%. View all of Southern First's insider trades
Southern Stock Institutional Investors
Have you ever been surprised when a price of an equity instrument such as Southern First is soaring high without any particular reason? This is usually happening because many institutional investors are aggressively trading Southern First Bancshares backward and forwards among themselves. Southern First's institutional investor refers to the entity that pools money to purchase Southern First's securities or originate loans. Institutional investors include commercial and private banks, credit unions, insurance companies, pension funds, hedge funds, endowments, and mutual funds. Operating companies that invest excess capital in these types of assets may also be included in the term and may influence corporate governance by exercising voting rights in their investments.
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Southern First Bancshares Insider Trading Activities
Some recent studies suggest that insider trading raises the cost of capital for securities issuers and decreases overall economic growth. Trading by specific Southern First insiders, such as employees or executives, is commonly permitted as long as it does not rely on Southern First's material information that is not in the public domain. Local jurisdictions usually require such trading to be reported in order to monitor insider transactions. In many U.S. states, trading conducted by corporate officers, key employees, directors, or significant shareholders must be reported to the regulator or publicly disclosed, usually within a few business days of the trade. In these cases Southern First insiders are required to file a Form 4 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) when buying or selling shares of their own companies.
Southern First Outstanding Bonds
Southern First issues bonds to finance its operations. Corporate bonds make up one of the largest components of the U.S. bond market, which is considered the world's largest securities market. Southern First Bancshares uses the proceeds from bond sales for a wide variety of purposes, including financing ongoing mergers and acquisitions, buying new equipment, investing in research and development, buying back their own stock, paying dividends to shareholders, and even refinancing existing debt. Most Southern bonds can be classified according to their maturity, which is the date when Southern First Bancshares has to pay back the principal to investors. Maturities can be short-term, medium-term, or long-term (more than ten years). Longer-term bonds usually offer higher interest rates but may entail additional risks.
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Southern First Corporate Filings
10K | 3rd of March 2025 Annual report required by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of a company financial performance | ViewVerify |
| 14th of February 2025 Other Reports | ViewVerify | |
F4 | 13th of February 2025 The report filed by a party regarding the acquisition or disposition of a company's common stock, as well as derivative securities such as options, warrants, and convertible securities | ViewVerify |
8K | 28th of January 2025 Report filed with the SEC to announce major events that shareholders should know about | ViewVerify |
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