AMBC vs. MBI, NMIH, NYMT, EGBN, NXP, OSBC, INN, HFWA, RDFN, and FDUS
Should you be buying Ambac Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ambac Financial Group include MBIA (MBI), NMI (NMIH), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), Eagle Bancorp (EGBN), Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio (NXP), Old Second Bancorp (OSBC), Summit Hotel Properties (INN), Heritage Financial (HFWA), Redfin (RDFN), and Fidus Investment (FDUS). 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 better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
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, 12.6% of MBIA shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
In the previous week, Ambac Financial Group had 2 more articles in the media than MBIA. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Ambac Financial Group and 1 mentions for MBIA. MBIA's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Ambac Financial Group's score of -0.40 indicating that MBIA is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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 presently has a consensus price target of $18.00, suggesting a potential upside of 23.37%. MBIA has a consensus price target of $7.25, suggesting a potential upside of 6.30%. Given Ambac Financial Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ambac Financial Group is more favorable than MBIA.
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 5.26% of users gave Ambac Financial Group an outperform vote.
Ambac Financial Group has a net margin of 1.48% compared to MBIA's net margin of -425.26%. Ambac Financial Group's return on equity of 6.99% beat MBIA's return on equity.
Summary
Ambac Financial Group beats MBIA on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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