MBI vs. AMBC, GNTY, FRGE, MPB, FFIC, BETR, RRBI, SCM, MOFG, and MIY
Should you be buying MBIA stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MBIA include Ambac Financial Group (AMBC), Guaranty Bancshares (GNTY), Forge Global (FRGE), Mid Penn Bancorp (MPB), Flushing Financial (FFIC), Better Home & Finance (BETR), Red River Bancshares (RRBI), Stellus Capital Investment (SCM), MidWestOne Financial Group (MOFG), and BlackRock MuniYield Michigan Quality Fund (MIY). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Ambac Financial Group (NYSE:AMBC) and MBIA (NYSE:MBI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk, media sentiment and community ranking.
Ambac Financial Group currently has a consensus price target of $18.00, indicating a potential upside of 23.03%. MBIA has a consensus price target of $7.25, indicating a potential upside of 15.26%. Given MBIA's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ambac Financial Group is more favorable than MBIA.
Ambac Financial Group has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MBIA has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ambac Financial Group has higher revenue and earnings than MBIA. MBIA is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ambac Financial Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MBIA received 349 more outperform votes than Ambac Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.00% of users gave MBIA an outperform vote while only 5.56% of users gave Ambac Financial Group an outperform vote.
Ambac Financial Group has a net margin of 1.48% compared to Ambac Financial Group's net margin of -425.26%. MBIA's return on equity of 6.99% beat Ambac Financial Group's return on equity.
84.5% of Ambac Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.0% of MBIA shares are held by institutional investors. 3.4% of Ambac Financial Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.8% of MBIA shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Ambac Financial Group had 1 more articles in the media than MBIA. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Ambac Financial Group and 1 mentions for MBIA. MBIA's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Ambac Financial Group'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
Ambac Financial Group beats MBIA on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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