MBI vs. AMBC, MIY, HIVE, SAR, NODK, MHN, BETR, BWB, PSTL, and PMO
Should you be buying MBIA stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MBIA include Ambac Financial Group (AMBC), BlackRock MuniYield Michigan Quality Fund (MIY), HIVE Digital Technologies (HIVE), Saratoga Investment (SAR), NI (NODK), BlackRock MuniHoldings New York Quality Fund (MHN), Better Home & Finance (BETR), Bridgewater Bancshares (BWB), Postal Realty Trust (PSTL), and Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust (PMO). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
MBIA (NYSE:MBI) and Ambac Financial Group (NYSE:AMBC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, dividends and profitability.
MBIA has a beta of 1.46, meaning that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ambac Financial Group has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
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.
MBIA currently has a consensus price target of $7.25, suggesting a potential upside of 14.17%. Ambac Financial Group has a consensus price target of $18.00, suggesting a potential upside of 21.38%. Given Ambac Financial Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ambac Financial Group is more favorable than MBIA.
In the previous week, Ambac Financial Group had 2 more articles in the media than MBIA. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Ambac Financial Group and 4 mentions for MBIA. Ambac Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat MBIA's score of 0.37 indicating that Ambac Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
61.0% of MBIA shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.5% of Ambac Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. 13.8% of MBIA shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of Ambac Financial Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Ambac Financial Group beats MBIA on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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