HIPO vs. UFCS, UVE, TCPC, TIPT, DGICA, GLRE, GBLI, HRTG, NODK, and KFS
Should you be buying Hippo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hippo include United Fire Group (UFCS), Universal Insurance (UVE), BlackRock TCP Capital (TCPC), Tiptree (TIPT), Donegal Group (DGICA), Greenlight Capital Re (GLRE), Global Indemnity Group (GBLI), Heritage Insurance (HRTG), NI (NODK), and Kingsway Financial Services (KFS). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Hippo (NYSE:HIPO) and United Fire Group (NASDAQ:UFCS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation and risk.
Hippo has a beta of 1.41, meaning that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, United Fire Group has a beta of 0.34, meaning that its share price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Hippo presently has a consensus price target of $17.33, suggesting a potential downside of 6.76%. United Fire Group has a consensus price target of $21.00, suggesting a potential downside of 9.44%. Given Hippo's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Hippo is more favorable than United Fire Group.
United Fire Group received 205 more outperform votes than Hippo when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.45% of users gave United Fire Group an outperform vote while only 37.14% of users gave Hippo an outperform vote.
United Fire Group has higher revenue and earnings than Hippo. United Fire Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hippo, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Hippo had 10 more articles in the media than United Fire Group. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Hippo and 8 mentions for United Fire Group. United Fire Group's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Hippo's score of -0.11 indicating that United Fire Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
United Fire Group has a net margin of -2.71% compared to Hippo's net margin of -93.69%. United Fire Group's return on equity of -4.38% beat Hippo's return on equity.
43.0% of Hippo shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.7% of United Fire Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.4% of Hippo shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.0% of United Fire Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
United Fire Group beats Hippo on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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