LDI vs. NIC, CASH, HUT, SII, CUBI, PWP, CLBK, MBIN, WULF, and CMPO
Should you be buying loanDepot stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of loanDepot 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.
loanDepot vs. Its Competitors
loanDepot (NYSE:LDI) 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 valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends and risk.
39.4% of loanDepot shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.1% of Nicolet Bankshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 78.1% of loanDepot shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.4% of Nicolet Bankshares shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
loanDepot has a beta of 3.33, suggesting that its stock price is 233% more 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.
Nicolet Bankshares has a net margin of 24.31% compared to loanDepot's net margin of -7.74%. Nicolet Bankshares' return on equity of 11.08% beat loanDepot's return on equity.
Nicolet Bankshares has lower revenue, but higher earnings than loanDepot. loanDepot is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nicolet Bankshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
loanDepot currently has a consensus price target of $1.98, suggesting a potential upside of 54.30%. Nicolet Bankshares has a consensus price target of $119.25, suggesting a potential downside of 9.34%. Given loanDepot's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe loanDepot is more favorable than Nicolet Bankshares.
In the previous week, Nicolet Bankshares had 3 more articles in the media than loanDepot. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Nicolet Bankshares and 1 mentions for loanDepot. Nicolet Bankshares' average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat loanDepot's score of 0.00 indicating that Nicolet Bankshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Nicolet Bankshares beats loanDepot on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NYSE:LDI) was last updated on 7/6/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
