Southern First Bancshares (SFST)

• Market cap: $346M
• 1 day: -2.38%
• 5 days: -4.77%
• 1 month: 11.18%
• 3 months: 19.07%
• 6 months: 11.97%
• Year to date: 11.12%
• 1 year: 22.27%
• 5 years: 67.91%
• 10 years: 107.87%
• Sector: Financials
• Industry: Banks - Regional

About: Southern First Bancshares Inc is a bank holding company. The company engaged in the business of accepting demand deposits and savings deposits insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the FDIC), and providing commercial, consumer and mortgage loans to the general public of which a majority of the revenue is derived from the Commercial and Retail Banking segment which includes the provision of traditional deposit and lending products and services to its commercial and retail banking clients.

Employees: 297

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2025 Q1 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

67% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 10 | Existing positions closed: 6

3% more funds holding

Funds holding: 94 [Q4 2024] → 97 (+3) [Q1 2025]

0% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 2 [Q4 2024] → 2 (+0) [Q1 2025]

1.07% less ownership

Funds ownership: 79.4% [Q4 2024] → 78.33% (-1.07%) [Q1 2025]

18% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $258M [Q4 2024] → $211M (-$46.6M) [Q1 2025]

24% less repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 29 | Existing positions reduced: 38

96% less call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $13K | Put options by funds: $306K

Research analyst outlook

1 Wall Street Analyst provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $51 21% upside
• Avg. target: $51 21% upside
• High target: $51 21% upside

1 analyst rating

• positive: 1 100%
• neutral: 0 0%
• negative: 0 0%

Piper Sandler Stephen Scouten

21% upside $51

Overweight Maintained

23 Jul 2025