NIC vs. UMBF, VLY, FULT, BANF, WSFS, CBU, WAFD, SFNC, PRK, and BANC
Should you be buying Nicolet Bankshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nicolet Bankshares include UMB Financial (UMBF), Valley National Bancorp (VLY), Fulton Financial (FULT), BancFirst (BANF), WSFS Financial (WSFS), Community Bank System (CBU), WaFd (WAFD), Simmons First National (SFNC), Park National (PRK), and Banc of California (BANC). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
UMB Financial (NASDAQ:UMBF) and Nicolet Bankshares (NYSE:NIC) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.
UMB Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Nicolet Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. UMB Financial pays out 20.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Nicolet Bankshares pays out 15.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. UMB Financial has increased its dividend for 31 consecutive years. UMB Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
UMB Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Nicolet Bankshares. UMB Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nicolet Bankshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
UMB Financial presently has a consensus target price of $92.83, suggesting a potential upside of 12.61%. Nicolet Bankshares has a consensus target price of $87.88, suggesting a potential upside of 9.12%. Given Nicolet Bankshares' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe UMB Financial is more favorable than Nicolet Bankshares.
87.8% of UMB Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.1% of Nicolet Bankshares shares are held by institutional investors. 8.9% of UMB Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.4% of Nicolet Bankshares shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
UMB Financial has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nicolet Bankshares has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, UMB Financial had 8 more articles in the media than Nicolet Bankshares. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for UMB Financial and 1 mentions for Nicolet Bankshares. UMB Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.67 beat Nicolet Bankshares' score of 0.78 indicating that Nicolet Bankshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
UMB Financial received 263 more outperform votes than Nicolet Bankshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 46.56% of users gave UMB Financial an outperform vote while only 5.26% of users gave Nicolet Bankshares an outperform vote.
Nicolet Bankshares has a net margin of 20.60% compared to Nicolet Bankshares' net margin of 14.59%. Nicolet Bankshares' return on equity of 14.30% beat UMB Financial's return on equity.
Summary
UMB Financial beats Nicolet Bankshares on 16 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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