JRVR vs. NODK, HRTG, KFS, MHLD, DGICA, GBLI, HIPO, GLRE, UFCS, and UVE
Should you be buying James River Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of James River Group include NI (NODK), Heritage Insurance (HRTG), Kingsway Financial Services (KFS), Maiden (MHLD), Donegal Group (DGICA), Global Indemnity Group (GBLI), Hippo (HIPO), Greenlight Capital Re (GLRE), United Fire Group (UFCS), and Universal Insurance (UVE). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
NI (NASDAQ:NODK) and James River Group (NASDAQ:JRVR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and earnings.
21.9% of NI shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.2% of James River Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of NI shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.2% of James River Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
James River Group has a consensus target price of $12.33, suggesting a potential upside of 50.41%. Given NI's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe James River Group is more favorable than NI.
NI has a beta of 0.33, meaning that its stock price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, James River Group has a beta of 0.17, meaning that its stock price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500.
NI has a net margin of 1.37% compared to NI's net margin of -10.56%. NI's return on equity of 12.85% beat James River Group's return on equity.
James River Group received 262 more outperform votes than NI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.50% of users gave James River Group an outperform vote while only 62.04% of users gave NI an outperform vote.
NI has higher earnings, but lower revenue than James River Group. James River Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, James River Group had 1 more articles in the media than NI. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for James River Group and 4 mentions for NI. NI's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat James River Group's score of 0.09 indicating that James River Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
James River Group beats NI on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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