NELNET INC CLASS A (NNI)
Financials · Loan servicing, education fintech, and consumer banking · NYSE
A diversified fintech holding company that services $486 billion in student loans while building adjacent education technology and consumer lending businesses.
What NELNET INC CLASS A does
Nelnet is a diversified financial services and technology holding company operating primarily in student loan servicing, education technology, and consumer lending. The company services $486 billion in federal and private student loans for 13.2 million borrowers and generates substantial revenue from net interest income on its federally insured FFELP loan portfolio, supplemented by education technology platforms, loan servicing, payments solutions, and banking services through Nelnet Bank.
Themes: ["Student loan servicing and origination"]
Fundamentals
- Price$132.51 as of 2026-07-09 close
- Market cap$4.7B as of 2026-07-10
- 1-year return+6.1% as of 2026-07-09 close
- P/E11.26 as of 2026-07-10
- Net margin+20.8% as of 2026-07-10
- Gross margin+64.9% as of 2026-07-10
- ROE+11.4% as of 2026-07-10
- Debt / equity2.53 as of 2026-07-10
- Revenue growth (YoY)-0.6% as of 2026-07-10
- Beta0.78 as of 2026-07-10
Dividend: yield +1.0%; 2-year non-decreasing per-share dividend streak (SEC XBRL).
Key risks (from latest filing)
["Declining interest income from legacy FFELP loan portfolio as it is paid down over time, creating structural revenue headwind"]
Competitors & peers
Fundamentals: Finnhub, as of 2026-07-10. Filings: SEC EDGAR. Prices are delayed daily-close data.
Last updated 2026-07-09.
Informational only — NOT financial advice. All figures are delayed daily-close data from SEC EDGAR & Finnhub, shown with their as-of date.