JRVR vs. NODK, HRTG, MHLD, GBLI, DGICA, HIPO, GLRE, UVE, UFCS, and TIPT
Should you be buying James River Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of James River Group include NI (NODK), Heritage Insurance (HRTG), Maiden (MHLD), Global Indemnity Group (GBLI), Donegal Group (DGICA), Hippo (HIPO), Greenlight Capital Re (GLRE), Universal Insurance (UVE), United Fire Group (UFCS), and Tiptree (TIPT). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
NI (NASDAQ:NODK) and James River Group (NASDAQ:JRVR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
NI has a beta of 0.33, indicating that its share price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, James River Group has a beta of 0.17, indicating that its share price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500.
21.9% of NI shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.2% of James River Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of NI shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.2% of James River Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
NI has a net margin of 1.37% compared to NI's net margin of -10.56%. NI's return on equity of 12.85% beat James River Group's return on equity.
James River Group has a consensus target price of $12.33, indicating a potential upside of 66.67%. Given NI's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe James River Group is more favorable than NI.
James River Group received 262 more outperform votes than NI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.50% of users gave James River Group an outperform vote while only 62.04% of users gave NI an outperform vote.
In the previous week, NI had 1 more articles in the media than James River Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for NI and 4 mentions for James River Group. James River Group's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat NI's score of 1.05 indicating that NI is being referred to more favorably in the media.
NI has higher earnings, but lower revenue than James River Group. James River Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
James River Group beats NI on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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