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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.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Shore Bancshares
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67
Nicolet Bankshares
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.25

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.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Shore Bancshares
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Nicolet Bankshares
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Shore Bancshares14.91% 10.44% 0.93%
Nicolet Bankshares 24.31%11.08%1.46%

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Shore Bancshares$326.48M1.65$43.89M$1.4910.86
Nicolet Bankshares$520.63M3.69$124.06M$8.2915.37

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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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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SHBI vs. The Competition

MetricShore BancsharesBANKS IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$544.43M$824.22M$12.00B$8.94B
Dividend Yield3.05%3.26%5.61%4.12%
P/E Ratio10.8619.0019.9319.74
Price / Sales1.651.9825.68109.12
Price / Cash9.4648.6021.1757.06
Price / Book1.001.102.235.37
Net Income$43.89M$53.76M$1.00B$248.34M
7 Day Performance6.69%4.10%2.04%1.67%
1 Month Performance12.08%5.46%3.57%4.56%
1 Year Performance41.23%24.13%539.63%18.42%

Shore Bancshares Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SHBI
Shore Bancshares
3.7211 of 5 stars
$16.19
+3.0%
$20.00
+23.6%
+42.9%$544.43M$326.48M10.86450
NIC
Nicolet Bankshares
2.9602 of 5 stars
$120.59
+3.3%
$119.25
-1.1%
+56.4%$1.76B$520.63M14.55860Positive News
CASH
Pathward Financial
2.9861 of 5 stars
$76.17
+4.2%
$92.00
+20.8%
+42.6%$1.74B$775.94M10.281,244
HUT
Hut 8
3.1825 of 5 stars
$15.89
-4.9%
$25.76
+62.1%
+21.2%$1.74B$162.38M0.00219Gap Down
SII
Sprott
0.9368 of 5 stars
$64.84
-0.9%
N/A+66.9%$1.69B$178.65M33.77170Positive News
CUBI
Customers Bancorp
1.6217 of 5 stars
$53.90
+3.7%
$64.00
+18.7%
+28.6%$1.64B$1.39B13.58640Positive News
Analyst Revision
PWP
Perella Weinberg Partners
1.2356 of 5 stars
$18.65
+4.8%
$23.00
+23.3%
+23.3%$1.57B$878.04M-43.37600
CLBK
Columbia Financial
0.5035 of 5 stars
$14.35
+3.2%
$16.00
+11.5%
+1.4%$1.46B$489.17M-717.50750Positive News
MBIN
Merchants Bancorp
3.9976 of 5 stars
$32.11
+2.3%
$47.50
+47.9%
-15.7%$1.44B$1.45B5.90480
WULF
TeraWulf
3.2478 of 5 stars
$3.57
-4.5%
$7.89
+121.0%
-14.8%$1.44B$140.05M-10.826Analyst Revision
Gap Down
CMPO
CompoSecure
1.393 of 5 stars
$14.05
+0.6%
$16.19
+15.2%
+103.5%$1.43B$420.57M-12.771,007Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:SHBI) was last updated on 7/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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