NIC vs. QFIN, UWMC, OMF, BMA, CADE, OZK, FLG, VLY, PFSI, and UPST
Should you be buying Nicolet Bankshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nicolet Bankshares include Qifu Technology (QFIN), UWM (UWMC), OneMain (OMF), Banco Macro (BMA), Cadence Bank (CADE), Bank OZK (OZK), Flagstar Financial (FLG), Valley National Bancorp (VLY), PennyMac Financial Services (PFSI), and Upstart (UPST). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Nicolet Bankshares vs.
Nicolet Bankshares (NYSE:NIC) and Qifu Technology (NASDAQ:QFIN) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and media sentiment.
Qifu Technology has a net margin of 31.82% compared to Nicolet Bankshares' net margin of 23.83%. Qifu Technology's return on equity of 24.39% beat Nicolet Bankshares' return on equity.
Nicolet Bankshares has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Qifu Technology has a beta of 0.53, meaning that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.
43.1% of Nicolet Bankshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.8% of Qifu Technology shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.4% of Nicolet Bankshares shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.1% of Qifu Technology shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Qifu Technology received 101 more outperform votes than Nicolet Bankshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.18% of users gave Qifu Technology an outperform vote while only 10.71% of users gave Nicolet Bankshares an outperform vote.
Nicolet Bankshares presently has a consensus target price of $119.25, suggesting a potential downside of 2.87%. Qifu Technology has a consensus target price of $45.10, suggesting a potential upside of 6.09%. Given Qifu Technology's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Qifu Technology is more favorable than Nicolet Bankshares.
Nicolet Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Qifu Technology pays an annual dividend of $1.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Nicolet Bankshares pays out 13.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Qifu Technology pays out 23.8% 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 1 consecutive years.
Qifu Technology has higher revenue and earnings than Nicolet Bankshares. Qifu Technology is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nicolet Bankshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Qifu Technology had 13 more articles in the media than Nicolet Bankshares. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Qifu Technology and 7 mentions for Nicolet Bankshares. Qifu Technology's average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat Nicolet Bankshares' score of 1.13 indicating that Qifu Technology is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Qifu Technology beats Nicolet Bankshares on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:NIC) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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