HIPO vs. KFS, MHLD, HRTG, NODK, ROOT, GLRE, UVE, HCI, GBLI, and DGICA
Should you be buying Hippo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hippo include Kingsway Financial Services (KFS), Maiden (MHLD), Heritage Insurance (HRTG), NI (NODK), Root (ROOT), Greenlight Capital Re (GLRE), Universal Insurance (UVE), HCI Group (HCI), Global Indemnity Group (GBLI), and Donegal Group (DGICA).
Hippo (NYSE:HIPO) and Kingsway Financial Services (NYSE:KFS) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and dividends.
Kingsway Financial Services has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Hippo.
30.9% of Hippo shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.7% of Kingsway Financial Services shares are held by institutional investors. 11.3% of Hippo shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 60.1% of Kingsway Financial Services shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Hippo currently has a consensus target price of $27.38, suggesting a potential upside of 274.49%. Given Hippo's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Hippo is more favorable than Kingsway Financial Services.
Hippo has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kingsway Financial Services has a beta of -0.26, meaning that its share price is 126% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Hippo had 7 more articles in the media than Kingsway Financial Services. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Hippo and 2 mentions for Kingsway Financial Services. Kingsway Financial Services' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Hippo's score of -0.45 indicating that Kingsway Financial Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kingsway Financial Services received 110 more outperform votes than Hippo when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.18% of users gave Kingsway Financial Services an outperform vote while only 32.26% of users gave Hippo an outperform vote.
Kingsway Financial Services has a net margin of 56.48% compared to Hippo's net margin of -240.20%. Kingsway Financial Services' return on equity of -24.94% beat Hippo's return on equity.
Summary
Kingsway Financial Services beats Hippo on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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