If a company builds assets at 17.1% a year, faster than its revenue growth rate of 5.9% over the past 5 years, it means that the company may be getting less efficient.
During the past 12 months, Southern First Bancshares's average Total Assets Growth Rate was 10.10% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Total Assets Growth Rate was 18.90% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Total Assets Growth Rate was 17.10% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Total Assets Growth Rate was 17.20% per year.
During the past 13 years, Southern First Bancshares's highest 3-Year average Total Assets Growth Rate was 55.30%. The lowest was -2.20%. And the median was 16.70%.
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Southern First Bancshares Total Assets Calculation
Total Assets are all the assets a company owns.
From the capital sources of the assets, some of the assets are funded through shareholder's paid in capital and retained earnings of the business. Others are funded through borrowed money.
Southern First Bancshares's Total Assets for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Southern First Bancshares (NAS:SFST) Total Assets Explanation
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The Net Income data used here is four times the quarterly (Dec. 2023) data.
In the article Joining The Dark Side: Pirates, Spies and Short Sellers, James Montier reported that In their US sample covering the period 1968-2003, Cooper et al find that firms with low asset growth outperformed firms with high asset growth by an astounding 20% p.a. equally weighted. Even when controlling for market, size and style, low asset growth firms outperformed high asset growth firms by 13% p.a. Therefore a company with fast asset growth may underperform.
Total Assets is linked to total revenue through Asset Turnover.
Southern First Bancshares's Asset Turnover for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Therefore, if a company grows its Total Assets faster than its Revenue, the Asset Turnover will decline. This might be a warning sign for the business.
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Southern First Bancshares (Southern First Bancshares) Business Description
Southern First Bancshares Inc is a bank holding company. The primary business of the company is to serve as the holding company for Southern First Bank. The Bank is engaged in the business of accepting demand deposits and savings deposits insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp and providing commercial, consumer, and mortgage loans to the general public. The operating segments of the company are Commercial and Retail Banking, Mortgage Banking, and Corporate Operations, 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.
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