Company Analysis

Prosperity Bancshares Inc (PB)

NYSE: PB · State Commercial Banks · Houston, TX · filing with the SEC since 1998
Grade6.1
◀ Past 6.2● Present 6.9▶ Future 4.9

The grade of Prosperity Bancshares Inc

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
6.1/10
◀ Past6.240% of the headline
● Present6.935% of the headline
▶ Future4.925% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

6.2/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.8/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 45% of this tense · 78th percentile among 165 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Prosperity Bancshares Inc's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
3.5/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+9.8% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 22% of this tense · 35th percentile among 152 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Prosperity Bancshares Inc's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $676 million in fiscal 2016 to $1.6 billion in fiscal 2025, up 9.8% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 8% from fiscal 2020 to fiscal 2021; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span9.8%bottom 23% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 29% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 44% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak8.5%bottom 31% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
5.9/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 1.2% a year. 57% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 241 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 59th percentile among 157 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Prosperity Bancshares Inc's diluted share count grew about 1.2% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 57% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 241 sales (234 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-05 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 35% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 18% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

6.9/1035% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
6.3/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 7%: 7¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 80%: owes 80¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 63rd percentile among 161 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Prosperity Bancshares Inc earned about 7 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 80 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.1% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 1% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 23% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 35% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
6.8/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 32% of 155 in its family; net margin 34.6%.

weight 33% of this tense · 68th percentile among 155 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Prosperity Bancshares Inc's standing among 155 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.6 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 13% by size; a net margin of 34.6% ranks in the top 7%; revenue growth of 12.8% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 23% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$1.57Btop 13% of its family
  • net margin34.6%top 7% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth12.8%bottom 23% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
8.2/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 18% of 150 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2008.

weight 22% of this tense · 82nd percentile among 150 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Prosperity Bancshares Inc's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Zalman, David (Senior Chairman & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2008-04-17, 18.6 years (top 8% of its family); the 22 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 12 years (top 13%); 5 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 22 people in charge now (top 33%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge5 in three years among 22 peopletop 33% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed12.0 yearstop 13% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record18.6 yearstop 8% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

4.9/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
6.5/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 35% of 142 in its family for room to expand.

weight 33% of this tense · 65th percentile among 142 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Prosperity Bancshares Inc's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash from operations less capital spending is 32.9% of revenue (top 20%); research spending of 0.5% of revenue (top 50%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue32.9%top 20% of its family
  • research spending against revenue0.5%top 50% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
3.3/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 32% of 152 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 32nd percentile among 152 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Prosperity Bancshares Inc's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 12.8% a year over the last three filed years against 9.8% over all 10, speeding up (bottom 40% of its family); the newest year grew -3.3% (bottom 12%); research spending grew 9.7% a year (top 50%); capital spending grew -8.5% a year (bottom 29%) (its annual reports). Prosperity Bancshares Inc tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+2.9 points a yearbottom 40% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth-3.3%bottom 12% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending9.7%top 50% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-8.5%bottom 29% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
5.0/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

top 50% of 150 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 50th percentile among 150 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Prosperity Bancshares Inc's newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.6 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 20.6% below the $2.0 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 25% of its family); net income of $543 million against a prior three-year average of $474 million (top 47%); a net margin of 34.6% against 35.5% before (top 28%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-20.6%bottom 25% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+14%top 47% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-0.9 pointstop 28% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton PB · research, not advice