MHLD vs. KINS, GLRE, KFS, HRTG, JRVR, NODK, DGICA, GBLI, HIPO, and UFCS
Should you be buying Maiden stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Maiden include Kingstone Companies (KINS), Greenlight Capital Re (GLRE), Kingsway Financial Services (KFS), Heritage Insurance (HRTG), James River Group (JRVR), NI (NODK), Donegal Group (DGICA), Global Indemnity Group (GBLI), Hippo (HIPO), and United Fire Group (UFCS). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Maiden (NASDAQ:MHLD) and Kingstone Companies (NASDAQ:KINS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and valuation.
Kingstone Companies has a net margin of 0.22% compared to Maiden's net margin of -26.14%. Kingstone Companies' return on equity of -3.04% beat Maiden's return on equity.
Kingstone Companies has a consensus target price of $1.75, suggesting a potential downside of 65.28%. Given Kingstone Companies' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Kingstone Companies is more favorable than Maiden.
21.8% of Maiden shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.9% of Kingstone Companies shares are held by institutional investors. 9.3% of Maiden shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.4% of Kingstone Companies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Kingstone Companies had 4 more articles in the media than Maiden. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Kingstone Companies and 1 mentions for Maiden. Kingstone Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.16 beat Maiden's score of 0.00 indicating that Kingstone Companies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kingstone Companies has higher revenue and earnings than Maiden. Kingstone Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Maiden, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Maiden has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kingstone Companies has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Maiden received 81 more outperform votes than Kingstone Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.71% of users gave Kingstone Companies an outperform vote while only 55.21% of users gave Maiden an outperform vote.
Summary
Kingstone Companies beats Maiden on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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