JRVR vs. NODK, HRTG, GLRE, GBLI, KFS, DGICA, MHLD, HIPO, UFCS, and UVE
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), Greenlight Capital Re (GLRE), Global Indemnity Group (GBLI), Kingsway Financial Services (KFS), Donegal Group (DGICA), Maiden (MHLD), Hippo (HIPO), United Fire Group (UFCS), and Universal Insurance (UVE). 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 superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, profitability, risk, valuation, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
James River Group has a consensus price target of $12.33, suggesting a potential upside of 37.19%. Given NI's higher probable upside, analysts clearly 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 3 mentions for NI and 2 mentions for James River Group. James River Group's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat NI's score of 0.34 indicating that NI is being referred to more favorably in the media.
NI has a beta of 0.32, indicating that its stock price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, James River Group has a beta of 0.18, indicating that its stock price is 82% less volatile than the S&P 500.
NI has a net margin of -1.50% compared to NI's net margin of -10.80%. NI's return on equity of 13.75% beat James River Group's return on equity.
NI has higher earnings, but lower revenue than James River Group. NI is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than James River Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
21.9% of NI shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.2% of James River Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of NI shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.2% of James River Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
James River Group beats NI on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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