How Nelnet, Inc. stacks up

NNI · against 161 other Financial Services companies listed in US-listed

Profitability

29/ 100

Below the middle of the pack.

Ranked #118 of 162 · scores higher than 27% of peers

Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score

16 peers with a profitability score of 20–29, including NNI · Click a bar to see the companies

Why profitability scores 29?

Weighted metrics compared with all Financial Services companies.

Mainly because of its return on invested capital, which is weaker than most Financial Services peers.

a lower return on invested capital: weaker than 73% of peers. Return on invested capital: 2.3% vs peer median 6.3%
Return on assets is close to the peer norm. Return on assets: 2.1% vs peer median 2.6%
Operating margin is not reported, so it is left out of the score.

Metric by metric

Position: dot = NNI, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.

Metric	NNI	Peer median	Better than	Position among peers	Weight
Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 157 reported	2.3%	7.1%	21%		33%
Operating marginHigher is better · 84 reported	Not reported	23.1%	—	—	33%
Return on assetsHigher is better · 183 reported	2.1%	2.6%	40%		33%
Return on equityHigher is better · 176 reported	6.8%	10.4%	37%		Context only
Gross marginHigher is better · 200 reported	86.1%	83.0%	53%		Context only

A metric that is not reported is left out of the score; the other weights are rescaled.

Ranking by profitability score

Top 5 and the companies ranked around NNI

Rank	Company	Market cap	Profitability	Overall
1	Mastercard IncorporatedMA · US-listed	566.9B USD	99	48
2	Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc.APAM · US-listed	2.7B USD	98	63
2	Raymond James Financial, Inc.RJF · US-listed	31.1B USD	98	65
4	CorVel CorporationCRVL · US-listed	4.2B USD	97	55
4	Sprott Inc.SII · US-listed	2.7B USD	97	58
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115	CION Investment CorporationCION · US-listed	336M USD	31	29
115	KKR & Co. Inc.KKR · US-listed	88.7B USD	31	39
117	SoFi Technologies, Inc.SOFI · US-listed	21.7B USD	30	45
118	Ally Financial Inc.ALLY · US-listed	11.5B USD	29	44
118	Nelnet, Inc.NNI · US-listed	4.4B USD	29	32
120	Tri-Continental CorporationTY · US-listed	1.8B USD	28
121	BlackRock Income Trust, Inc.BKT · US-listed	322M USD	27	58
121	The Gabelli Utility TrustGUT · US-listed	481M USD	27
123	MidCap Financial Investment CorporationMFIC · US-listed	848M USD	26	36

Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score

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