VERY vs. CIA, MPV, MFIN, INSI, ATLO, MBCN, VBF, ONL, ESSA, and MITT
Should you be buying Vericity stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vericity include Citizens (CIA), Barings Participation Investors (MPV), Medallion Financial (MFIN), Insight Select Income Fund (INSI), Ames National (ATLO), Middlefield Banc (MBCN), Invesco Bond Fund (VBF), Orion Office REIT (ONL), ESSA Bancorp (ESSA), and AG Mortgage Investment Trust (MITT). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Vericity (NASDAQ:VERY) and Citizens (NYSE:CIA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
1.9% of Vericity shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.7% of Citizens shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.4% of Vericity shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Citizens shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Citizens has a net margin of 10.15% compared to Vericity's net margin of -5.57%. Citizens' return on equity of 15.61% beat Vericity's return on equity.
Citizens has higher revenue and earnings than Vericity. Vericity is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Citizens, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Vericity has a beta of 0.14, meaning that its share price is 86% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Citizens has a beta of 0.17, meaning that its share price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Citizens had 11 more articles in the media than Vericity. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Citizens and 6 mentions for Vericity. Citizens' average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Vericity's score of -0.11 indicating that Citizens is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Citizens received 202 more outperform votes than Vericity when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.50% of users gave Vericity an outperform vote while only 59.45% of users gave Citizens an outperform vote.
Summary
Citizens beats Vericity on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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