VBNK vs. NIC, CUBI, NTB, TFIN, CLBK, LOB, LC, VBTX, SUPV, and LX
Should you be buying VersaBank stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of VersaBank include Nicolet Bankshares (NIC), Customers Bancorp (CUBI), Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son (NTB), Triumph Financial (TFIN), Columbia Financial (CLBK), Live Oak Bancshares (LOB), LendingClub (LC), Veritex (VBTX), Grupo Supervielle (SUPV), and LexinFintech (LX). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
VersaBank vs.
Nicolet Bankshares (NYSE:NIC) and VersaBank (NASDAQ:VBNK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
Nicolet Bankshares has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, VersaBank has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
VersaBank received 6 more outperform votes than Nicolet Bankshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.29% of users gave VersaBank an outperform vote while only 11.54% of users gave Nicolet Bankshares an outperform vote.
Nicolet Bankshares has higher revenue and earnings than VersaBank. VersaBank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nicolet Bankshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Nicolet Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. VersaBank pays an annual dividend of $0.07 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Nicolet Bankshares pays out 13.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. VersaBank pays out 6.4% 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.
In the previous week, Nicolet Bankshares had 1 more articles in the media than VersaBank. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Nicolet Bankshares and 3 mentions for VersaBank. VersaBank's average media sentiment score of 1.54 beat Nicolet Bankshares' score of -0.19 indicating that VersaBank is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nicolet Bankshares presently has a consensus target price of $119.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.49%. VersaBank has a consensus target price of $19.00, indicating a potential upside of 40.32%. Given VersaBank's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe VersaBank is more favorable than Nicolet Bankshares.
43.1% of Nicolet Bankshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.9% of VersaBank shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.4% of Nicolet Bankshares shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.3% of VersaBank shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Nicolet Bankshares has a net margin of 23.83% compared to VersaBank's net margin of 13.52%. VersaBank's return on equity of 11.20% beat Nicolet Bankshares' return on equity.
Summary
VersaBank beats Nicolet Bankshares on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:VBNK) was last updated on 2/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff