NODK vs. JRVR, HRTG, KFS, GBLI, MHLD, GLRE, HIPO, DGICA, UFCS, and UVE
Should you be buying NI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NI include James River Group (JRVR), Heritage Insurance (HRTG), Kingsway Financial Services (KFS), Global Indemnity Group (GBLI), Maiden (MHLD), Greenlight Capital Re (GLRE), Hippo (HIPO), Donegal Group (DGICA), United Fire Group (UFCS), and Universal Insurance (UVE). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
NI (NASDAQ:NODK) and James River Group (NASDAQ:JRVR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
James River Group has a consensus target price of $12.33, indicating a potential upside of 32.62%. Given James River Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe James River Group is more favorable than NI.
NI has a net margin of -1.50% compared to James River Group's net margin of -10.80%. James River Group's return on equity of 13.75% beat NI's return on equity.
NI has higher earnings, but lower revenue than James River Group. NI is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than James River Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NI has a beta of 0.32, indicating that its share price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, James River Group has a beta of 0.18, indicating that its share price is 82% less volatile than the S&P 500.
James River Group received 261 more outperform votes than NI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.43% of users gave James River Group an outperform vote while only 62.04% of users gave NI an outperform vote.
21.9% of NI shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.2% of James River Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of NI shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.2% of James River Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, James River Group had 4 more articles in the media than NI. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for James River Group and 2 mentions for NI. James River Group's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat NI's score of 0.62 indicating that James River Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
James River Group beats NI on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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