NODK vs. HRTG, JRVR, KFS, MHLD, GLRE, GBLI, DGICA, HIPO, UFCS, and UVE
Should you be buying NI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NI include Heritage Insurance (HRTG), James River Group (JRVR), Kingsway Financial Services (KFS), Maiden (MHLD), Greenlight Capital Re (GLRE), Global Indemnity Group (GBLI), Donegal Group (DGICA), 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 Heritage Insurance (NYSE:HRTG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, risk, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
NI has a beta of 0.32, indicating that its share price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Heritage Insurance has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
21.9% of NI shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.0% of Heritage Insurance shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of NI shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.9% of Heritage Insurance shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Heritage Insurance has higher revenue and earnings than NI. NI is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Heritage Insurance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Heritage Insurance had 1 more articles in the media than NI. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Heritage Insurance and 3 mentions for NI. NI's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Heritage Insurance's score of -0.14 indicating that NI is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Heritage Insurance has a consensus price target of $9.00, suggesting a potential downside of 12.54%. Given Heritage Insurance's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Heritage Insurance is more favorable than NI.
Heritage Insurance has a net margin of 6.16% compared to NI's net margin of -1.50%. Heritage Insurance's return on equity of 26.69% beat NI's return on equity.
Heritage Insurance received 217 more outperform votes than NI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.80% of users gave Heritage Insurance an outperform vote while only 62.04% of users gave NI an outperform vote.
Summary
Heritage Insurance beats NI on 15 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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