NMIH vs. GNW, ORI, ESNT, MTG, RDN, AGO, AMBC, MBI, EWBC, and UNM
Should you be buying NMI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NMI include Genworth Financial (GNW), Old Republic International (ORI), Essent Group (ESNT), MGIC Investment (MTG), Radian Group (RDN), Assured Guaranty (AGO), Ambac Financial Group (AMBC), MBIA (MBI), East West Bancorp (EWBC), and Unum Group (UNM). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Genworth Financial (NYSE:GNW) and NMI (NASDAQ:NMIH) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.
NMI has a net margin of 56.26% compared to NMI's net margin of 1.24%. Genworth Financial's return on equity of 18.09% beat NMI's return on equity.
81.9% of Genworth Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.1% of NMI shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Genworth Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of NMI shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Genworth Financial has a beta of 1, indicating that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, NMI has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Genworth Financial received 134 more outperform votes than NMI when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.12% of users gave NMI an outperform vote while only 61.13% of users gave Genworth Financial an outperform vote.
NMI has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Genworth Financial. NMI is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Genworth Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, NMI had 15 more articles in the media than Genworth Financial. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for NMI and 1 mentions for Genworth Financial. NMI's average media sentiment score of 1.63 beat Genworth Financial's score of 0.73 indicating that Genworth Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Genworth Financial currently has a consensus price target of $7.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.00%. NMI has a consensus price target of $35.56, indicating a potential upside of 8.67%. Given NMI's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Genworth Financial is more favorable than NMI.
Summary
NMI beats Genworth Financial on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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