KINS vs. ICCH, FGF, CNFR, CFSB, ICMB, BOTJ, TCBS, BYFC, SELF, and ASPS
Should you be buying Kingstone Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kingstone Companies include ICC (ICCH), Fundamental Global (FGF), Conifer (CNFR), CFSB Bancorp (CFSB), Investcorp Credit Management BDC (ICMB), Bank of the James Financial Group (BOTJ), Texas Community Bancshares (TCBS), Broadway Financial (BYFC), Global Self Storage (SELF), and Altisource Portfolio Solutions (ASPS).
Kingstone Companies (NASDAQ:KINS) and ICC (NASDAQ:ICCH) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.
14.9% of Kingstone Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.5% of ICC shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.4% of Kingstone Companies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 25.8% of ICC shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
ICC has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kingstone Companies. Kingstone Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ICC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ICC has a net margin of 5.36% compared to Kingstone Companies' net margin of -4.28%. ICC's return on equity of 7.03% beat Kingstone Companies' return on equity.
Kingstone Companies currently has a consensus target price of $1.75, suggesting a potential downside of 61.71%. Given Kingstone Companies' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Kingstone Companies is more favorable than ICC.
Kingstone Companies received 58 more outperform votes than ICC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.71% of users gave Kingstone Companies an outperform vote while only 64.95% of users gave ICC an outperform vote.
Kingstone Companies has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ICC has a beta of 0.24, indicating that its stock price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Kingstone Companies had 2 more articles in the media than ICC. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Kingstone Companies and 0 mentions for ICC. Kingstone Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled ICC'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
ICC beats Kingstone Companies on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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