NIC vs. WABC, NBHC, CASH, HOPE, FCF, NWBI, SASR, OCFC, CHCO, and BFC
Should you be buying Nicolet Bankshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nicolet Bankshares include Westamerica Bancorporation (WABC), National Bank (NBHC), Pathward Financial (CASH), Hope Bancorp (HOPE), First Commonwealth Financial (FCF), Northwest Bancshares (NWBI), Sandy Spring Bancorp (SASR), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), City (CHCO), and Bank First (BFC). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
Westamerica Bancorporation (NASDAQ:WABC) and Nicolet Bankshares (NYSE:NIC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
81.9% of Westamerica Bancorporation shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.1% of Nicolet Bankshares shares are held by institutional investors. 4.4% of Westamerica Bancorporation shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.4% of Nicolet Bankshares shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Westamerica Bancorporation has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nicolet Bankshares has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Westamerica Bancorporation pays an annual dividend of $1.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Nicolet Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Westamerica Bancorporation pays out 29.7% 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. Westamerica Bancorporation has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Westamerica Bancorporation is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Westamerica Bancorporation had 10 more articles in the media than Nicolet Bankshares. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Westamerica Bancorporation and 6 mentions for Nicolet Bankshares. Nicolet Bankshares' average media sentiment score of 0.17 beat Westamerica Bancorporation's score of -0.02 indicating that Westamerica Bancorporation is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Westamerica Bancorporation received 237 more outperform votes than Nicolet Bankshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 50.42% of users gave Westamerica Bancorporation an outperform vote while only 5.26% of users gave Nicolet Bankshares an outperform vote.
Westamerica Bancorporation presently has a consensus target price of $53.50, indicating a potential upside of 14.00%. Nicolet Bankshares has a consensus target price of $87.88, indicating a potential upside of 7.97%. Given Nicolet Bankshares' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Westamerica Bancorporation is more favorable than Nicolet Bankshares.
Westamerica Bancorporation has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Nicolet Bankshares. Westamerica Bancorporation is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nicolet Bankshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Westamerica Bancorporation has a net margin of 48.35% compared to Westamerica Bancorporation's net margin of 20.60%. Nicolet Bankshares' return on equity of 21.99% beat Westamerica Bancorporation's return on equity.
Summary
Westamerica Bancorporation beats Nicolet Bankshares on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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