Keefe Bruyette upgraded Stellar Bancorp (STEL) to Outperform from Market Perform with a price target of $44, up from $33. The firm cites the pending deal with Prosperity Bancshares (PB), which accelerates the latter’s return to high-teen ROTCE and improves an “already strong deposit base”, the analyst tells investors in a research note.
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