NIC vs. HOPE, WABC, NBHC, CASH, SASR, FCF, NWBI, OCFC, CHCO, and BFC
Should you be buying Nicolet Bankshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nicolet Bankshares include Hope Bancorp (HOPE), Westamerica Bancorporation (WABC), National Bank (NBHC), Pathward Financial (CASH), Sandy Spring Bancorp (SASR), First Commonwealth Financial (FCF), Northwest Bancshares (NWBI), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), City (CHCO), and Bank First (BFC). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
Hope Bancorp (NASDAQ:HOPE) and Nicolet Bankshares (NYSE:NIC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, profitability and valuation.
84.0% of Hope Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.1% of Nicolet Bankshares shares are held by institutional investors. 5.3% of Hope Bancorp 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, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Hope Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Nicolet Bankshares. Hope Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nicolet Bankshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hope Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $11.83, indicating a potential upside of 10.28%. Nicolet Bankshares has a consensus price target of $87.88, indicating a potential upside of 6.44%. Given Nicolet Bankshares' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Hope Bancorp is more favorable than Nicolet Bankshares.
Nicolet Bankshares has a net margin of 20.60% compared to Nicolet Bankshares' net margin of 10.80%. Hope Bancorp's return on equity of 9.91% beat Nicolet Bankshares' return on equity.
In the previous week, Hope Bancorp had 4 more articles in the media than Nicolet Bankshares. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Hope Bancorp and 4 mentions for Nicolet Bankshares. Nicolet Bankshares' average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Hope Bancorp's score of -0.07 indicating that Hope Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hope Bancorp received 261 more outperform votes than Nicolet Bankshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.47% of users gave Hope Bancorp an outperform vote while only 5.26% of users gave Nicolet Bankshares an outperform vote.
Hope Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Nicolet Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Hope Bancorp pays out 56.0% 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.
Hope Bancorp has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nicolet Bankshares has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Hope Bancorp beats Nicolet Bankshares on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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