KINS vs. HRTG, KFS, MHLD, ICCH, FGF, OXBR, CNFR, UNAM, UIHC, and TIPT
Should you be buying Kingstone Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kingstone Companies include Heritage Insurance (HRTG), Kingsway Financial Services (KFS), Maiden (MHLD), ICC (ICCH), Fundamental Global (FGF), Oxbridge Re (OXBR), Conifer (CNFR), Unico American (UNAM), United Insurance (UIHC), and Tiptree (TIPT). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Kingstone Companies (NASDAQ:KINS) and Heritage Insurance (NYSE:HRTG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, risk, community ranking and dividends.
Kingstone Companies has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Heritage Insurance has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Heritage Insurance received 115 more outperform votes than Kingstone Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.20% of users gave Kingstone Companies an outperform vote while only 65.73% of users gave Heritage Insurance an outperform vote.
Heritage Insurance has a net margin of 6.07% compared to Kingstone Companies' net margin of 0.22%. Heritage Insurance's return on equity of 24.02% beat Kingstone Companies' return on equity.
14.9% of Kingstone Companies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.0% of Heritage Insurance shares are held by institutional investors. 12.2% of Kingstone Companies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 14.0% of Heritage Insurance shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Kingstone Companies had 1 more articles in the media than Heritage Insurance. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Kingstone Companies and 3 mentions for Heritage Insurance. Heritage Insurance's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Kingstone Companies' score of -0.66 indicating that Heritage Insurance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kingstone Companies currently has a consensus target price of $4.13, indicating a potential downside of 36.83%. Heritage Insurance has a consensus target price of $9.00, indicating a potential upside of 16.13%. Given Heritage Insurance's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Heritage Insurance is more favorable than Kingstone Companies.
Heritage Insurance has higher revenue and earnings than Kingstone Companies. Kingstone Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Heritage Insurance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Heritage Insurance beats Kingstone Companies on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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