LSAK vs. NIC, CUBI, SUPV, VBTX, QCRH, CMPO, BY, CCB, LX, and FBMS
Should you be buying Lesaka Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lesaka Technologies include Nicolet Bankshares (NIC), Customers Bancorp (CUBI), Grupo Supervielle (SUPV), Veritex (VBTX), QCR (QCRH), CompoSecure (CMPO), Byline Bancorp (BY), Coastal Financial (CCB), LexinFintech (LX), and First Bancshares (FBMS). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Lesaka Technologies vs.
Nicolet Bankshares (NYSE:NIC) and Lesaka Technologies (NASDAQ:LSAK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Nicolet Bankshares presently has a consensus target price of $112.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.36%. Given Nicolet Bankshares' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Nicolet Bankshares is more favorable than Lesaka Technologies.
Nicolet Bankshares has a net margin of 23.35% compared to Lesaka Technologies' net margin of -2.85%. Nicolet Bankshares' return on equity of 10.56% beat Lesaka Technologies' return on equity.
Nicolet Bankshares has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lesaka Technologies. Lesaka Technologies 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, Nicolet Bankshares had 3 more articles in the media than Lesaka Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Nicolet Bankshares and 0 mentions for Lesaka Technologies. Nicolet Bankshares' average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Lesaka Technologies' score of 0.00 indicating that Nicolet Bankshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Nicolet Bankshares has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lesaka Technologies has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
43.1% of Nicolet Bankshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.2% of Lesaka Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 16.4% of Nicolet Bankshares shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Lesaka Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Nicolet Bankshares received 1 more outperform votes than Lesaka Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 33.33% of users gave Lesaka Technologies an outperform vote while only 8.70% of users gave Nicolet Bankshares an outperform vote.
Summary
Nicolet Bankshares beats Lesaka Technologies on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:LSAK) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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