SHBI vs. NIC, CASH, HUT, SII, CUBI, PWP, CLBK, MBIN, WULF, and CMPO
Should you be buying Shore Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Shore Bancshares include Nicolet Bankshares (NIC), Pathward Financial (CASH), Hut 8 (HUT), Sprott (SII), Customers Bancorp (CUBI), Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP), Columbia Financial (CLBK), Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), TeraWulf (WULF), and CompoSecure (CMPO). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Shore Bancshares vs. Its Competitors
Shore Bancshares (NASDAQ:SHBI) and Nicolet Bankshares (NYSE:NIC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership and risk.
59.8% of Shore Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.1% of Nicolet Bankshares shares are held by institutional investors. 8.6% of Shore Bancshares shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 14.2% of Nicolet Bankshares shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Shore Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Nicolet Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Shore Bancshares pays out 32.2% 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. Nicolet Bankshares has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
Shore Bancshares currently has a consensus price target of $20.00, suggesting a potential upside of 23.57%. Nicolet Bankshares has a consensus price target of $119.25, suggesting a potential downside of 6.41%. Given Shore Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Shore Bancshares is more favorable than Nicolet Bankshares.
In the previous week, Shore Bancshares had 1 more articles in the media than Nicolet Bankshares. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Shore Bancshares and 3 mentions for Nicolet Bankshares. Nicolet Bankshares' average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Shore Bancshares' score of 0.70 indicating that Nicolet Bankshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nicolet Bankshares has a net margin of 24.31% compared to Shore Bancshares' net margin of 14.91%. Nicolet Bankshares' return on equity of 11.08% beat Shore Bancshares' return on equity.
Nicolet Bankshares has higher revenue and earnings than Shore Bancshares. Shore Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nicolet Bankshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Shore Bancshares has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nicolet Bankshares has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Nicolet Bankshares beats Shore Bancshares on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:SHBI) was last updated on 7/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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