Nicolet Bankshares reports Q3 EPS $2.73, consensus $2.39

“I must admit, I got a bit nostalgic thinking about what I would say in this press release,” said Mike Daniels, Chairman, President, and CEO of Nicolet. “Nicolet’s 25th anniversary is November 1st, and I still vividly remember sitting in my basement discussing what Nicolet should look like with my co-founder. When we were younger, we learned that banking should be about relationships and mattering to your customers and communities. I think the smartest thing we did was to make Nicolet a reflection of what we believed, and what we knew worked. In a way, Nicolet is a 25-year case study that shows that working hard to create shared success between customers, communities, and employees creates positive if not superior shareholder results. That philosophy ran counter to the industry 25 years ago and still does to a degree today. We didn’t set out to be contrarian. We set out to be ourselves.”