NMIH vs. AMBC, AGO, RDN, MBI, MTG, ESNT, ORI, AUB, FULT, and GRBK
Should you be buying NMI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NMI include Ambac Financial Group (AMBC), Assured Guaranty (AGO), Radian Group (RDN), MBIA (MBI), MGIC Investment (MTG), Essent Group (ESNT), Old Republic International (ORI), Atlantic Union Bankshares (AUB), Fulton Financial (FULT), and Green Brick Partners (GRBK). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Ambac Financial Group (NYSE:AMBC) and NMI (NASDAQ:NMIH) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends and media sentiment.
NMI received 404 more outperform votes than Ambac Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.22% of users gave NMI an outperform vote while only 5.26% of users gave Ambac Financial Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, NMI had 5 more articles in the media than Ambac Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for NMI and 6 mentions for Ambac Financial Group. Ambac Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat NMI's score of 0.58 indicating that NMI is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ambac Financial Group has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NMI has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
84.5% of Ambac Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.1% of NMI shares are held by institutional investors. 3.4% of Ambac Financial Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of NMI shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
NMI has higher revenue and earnings than Ambac Financial Group. NMI 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.
Ambac Financial Group presently has a consensus price target of $18.00, suggesting a potential upside of 21.79%. NMI has a consensus price target of $34.67, suggesting a potential upside of 7.19%. Given NMI's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Ambac Financial Group is more favorable than NMI.
NMI has a net margin of 55.63% compared to NMI's net margin of 1.48%. Ambac Financial Group's return on equity of 17.97% beat NMI's return on equity.
Summary
NMI beats Ambac Financial Group on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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