SFST Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Southern First Bancshares | NASDAQ:SFST)

Southern First Bancshares Inc is a bank holding company. Through its banking subsidiary, it is 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, ATM processing, and other banking products and services to the general public. The group operates through various retail offices located in the Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston markets of South Carolina, three retail offices in the Raleigh, Greensboro, and Charlotte markets of North Carolina, and one retail office in Atlanta, Georgia.

Southern First Bancshares trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol SFST.

As of October 5, 2026, SFST stock price declined to $60.78 with 20,505 million shares trading.

SFST has a beta of 0.24, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. SFST has a correlation of 0.01 to the broad based SPY ETF.

SFST has a market cap of $575.47 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

Last quarter Southern First Bancshares reported $32 million in Revenue and $1.20 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-4 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.01.

In the last 3 years, SFST traded as high as $65.09 and as low as $24.98.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that SFST belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, IWM, KRE, AVUV, VXF.

SFST has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +40.3%, while the SPY ETF gained +16.7%. However, in the most recent history, SFST shares have underperformed the stock market with its stock returning -0.7% in the last 3 month period and -1.5% for the last 2 week period, while SPY has returned +4.1% and +1.5%, respectively.

SFST support price is $59.72 and resistance is $61.98 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that SFST shares will trade within this expected range on the day.