NIC vs. UWMC, QFIN, OMF, CADE, BMA, OZK, PFSI, VLY, FLG, and GBCI
Should you be buying Nicolet Bankshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nicolet Bankshares include UWM (UWMC), Qifu Technology (QFIN), OneMain (OMF), Cadence Bank (CADE), Banco Macro (BMA), Bank OZK (OZK), PennyMac Financial Services (PFSI), Valley National Bancorp (VLY), Flagstar Financial (FLG), and Glacier Bancorp (GBCI). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Nicolet Bankshares vs. Its Competitors
UWM (NYSE:UWMC) and Nicolet Bankshares (NYSE:NIC) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
UWM pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.6%. Nicolet Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. UWM pays out -307.7% 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 raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. UWM is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Nicolet Bankshares had 3 more articles in the media than UWM. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Nicolet Bankshares and 3 mentions for UWM. Nicolet Bankshares' average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat UWM's score of 0.20 indicating that Nicolet Bankshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nicolet Bankshares has a net margin of 23.83% compared to UWM's net margin of 0.00%. Nicolet Bankshares' return on equity of 10.95% beat UWM's return on equity.
Nicolet Bankshares has lower revenue, but higher earnings than UWM. UWM is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nicolet Bankshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
UWM has a beta of 1.7, suggesting that its stock price is 70% 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.
UWM currently has a consensus target price of $6.86, suggesting a potential upside of 64.20%. Nicolet Bankshares has a consensus target price of $119.25, suggesting a potential upside of 2.04%. Given UWM's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe UWM is more favorable than Nicolet Bankshares.
53.6% of UWM shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.1% of Nicolet Bankshares shares are held by institutional investors. 87.5% of UWM shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.4% of Nicolet Bankshares shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
UWM received 27 more outperform votes than Nicolet Bankshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 30.00% of users gave UWM an outperform vote while only 10.71% of users gave Nicolet Bankshares an outperform vote.
Summary
UWM beats Nicolet Bankshares on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NYSE:NIC) was last updated on 6/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
