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About NELNET INC

Nelnet Inc. (NYSE: NNI) is a U.S.-based financial services and technology company headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. Founded in 1977, the company initially built its franchise around student loan servicing and related education finance infrastructure, then expanded over time into a broader platform that combines lending, payments, software, and education-focused services. For investors, Nelnet is best understood as a specialized financial and technology compounder with a long operating history and a gradually more diversified earnings base. Today, Nelnet operates through several main businesses. Its Loan Servicing and Systems platform provides servicing, collection, and administration capabilities for student loans and other consumer and private loan portfolios. Its Education Technology Services and Payments division offers payment processing, digital transaction tools, and software-enabled services to K-12 schools, higher education institutions, churches, and businesses, primarily in the United States but also in selected international markets. Nelnet Financial Services includes Asset Generation and Management, which earns net interest income from loan and investment portfolios, as well as Nelnet Bank, the company’s bank subsidiary. This structure gives Nelnet a hybrid profile that spans specialty finance, servicing, and technology-enabled fee businesses. From a competitive standpoint, Nelnet has a meaningful historical position in U.S. student loan servicing, an area where scale, operational expertise, and regulatory relationships matter. At the same time, that business remains exposed to policy changes, contract reassignments, and shifts in federal student lending volumes. Management has therefore worked to reduce concentration risk by expanding fee-based technology and payments revenue, growing private and consumer lending, and strengthening its banking platform. The company’s long-standing presence in the education ecosystem is an important strategic asset, particularly in a market where institutional relationships and operational reliability are critical. Recent developments underscore that diversification strategy. In its February 2026 fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 update, Nelnet said it delivered record earnings in 2025 and highlighted solid momentum across consumer lending, loan servicing, payments, and technology. The company also reported continued servicing scale, with hundreds of billions of dollars of loans under administration, while newer initiatives such as pay-later receivables and Nelnet Bank contributed to growth. For equity investors, Nelnet represents a mature but still evolving U.S. listed company on the NYSE, combining legacy student finance exposure with newer financial and technology growth engines in the United States market.