KFS vs. MHLD, NODK, HRTG, GBLI, GLRE, DGICA, HIPO, UFCS, UVE, and TCPC
Should you be buying Kingsway Financial Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kingsway Financial Services include Maiden (MHLD), NI (NODK), Heritage Insurance (HRTG), Global Indemnity Group (GBLI), Greenlight Capital Re (GLRE), Donegal Group (DGICA), Hippo (HIPO), United Fire Group (UFCS), Universal Insurance (UVE), and BlackRock TCP Capital (TCPC). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Kingsway Financial Services (NYSE:KFS) and Maiden (NASDAQ:MHLD) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends and profitability.
Kingsway Financial Services has a beta of -0.1, suggesting that its stock price is 110% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Maiden has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Kingsway Financial Services has higher revenue and earnings than Maiden.
72.4% of Kingsway Financial Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.8% of Maiden shares are owned by institutional investors. 54.8% of Kingsway Financial Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.3% of Maiden shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Maiden received 143 more outperform votes than Kingsway Financial Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.24% of users gave Kingsway Financial Services an outperform vote while only 55.21% of users gave Maiden an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Kingsway Financial Services and Kingsway Financial Services both had 4 articles in the media. Kingsway Financial Services' average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat Maiden's score of 0.20 indicating that Kingsway Financial Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Kingsway Financial Services has a net margin of 22.75% compared to Maiden's net margin of -43.22%. Maiden's return on equity of -8.75% beat Kingsway Financial Services' return on equity.
Summary
Kingsway Financial Services beats Maiden on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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