KINS vs. ICCH, FGF, CNFR, CFSB, ICMB, BOTJ, TCBS, BYFC, SELF, and ASPS
Should you be buying Kingstone Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kingstone Companies include ICC (ICCH), Fundamental Global (FGF), Conifer (CNFR), CFSB Bancorp (CFSB), Investcorp Credit Management BDC (ICMB), Bank of the James Financial Group (BOTJ), Texas Community Bancshares (TCBS), Broadway Financial (BYFC), Global Self Storage (SELF), and Altisource Portfolio Solutions (ASPS).
Kingstone Companies (NASDAQ:KINS) and ICC (NASDAQ:ICCH) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
ICC has a net margin of 5.36% compared to Kingstone Companies' net margin of -4.28%. ICC's return on equity of 7.03% beat Kingstone Companies' return on equity.
Kingstone Companies received 58 more outperform votes than ICC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.71% of users gave Kingstone Companies an outperform vote while only 64.95% of users gave ICC an outperform vote.
14.9% of Kingstone Companies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.5% of ICC shares are held by institutional investors. 10.4% of Kingstone Companies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 24.1% of ICC shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
ICC has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kingstone Companies. Kingstone Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ICC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, ICC had 18 more articles in the media than Kingstone Companies. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for ICC and 2 mentions for Kingstone Companies. Kingstone Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat ICC's score of -0.59 indicating that Kingstone Companies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Kingstone Companies currently has a consensus target price of $1.75, suggesting a potential downside of 58.63%. Given Kingstone Companies' higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Kingstone Companies is more favorable than ICC.
Kingstone Companies has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ICC has a beta of 0.24, suggesting that its share price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
ICC beats Kingstone Companies on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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