KINS vs. ICCH, SHFS, FOA, BRBS, NSTS, SDIG, ICMB, SELF, HNNA, and BOTJ
Should you be buying Kingstone Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kingstone Companies include ICC (ICCH), SHF (SHFS), Finance of America Companies (FOA), Blue Ridge Bankshares (BRBS), NSTS Bancorp (NSTS), Stronghold Digital Mining (SDIG), Investcorp Credit Management BDC (ICMB), Global Self Storage (SELF), Hennessy Advisors (HNNA), and Bank of the James Financial Group (BOTJ). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
ICC (NASDAQ:ICCH) and Kingstone Companies (NASDAQ:KINS) 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, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, risk and media sentiment.
Kingstone Companies has a consensus target price of $1.75, indicating a potential downside of 56.79%. Given ICC's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Kingstone Companies is more favorable than ICC.
ICC has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Kingstone Companies. Kingstone Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ICC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ICC has a net margin of 5.91% compared to ICC's net margin of -4.28%. Kingstone Companies' return on equity of 8.08% beat ICC's return on equity.
Kingstone Companies received 58 more outperform votes than ICC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.71% of users gave Kingstone Companies an outperform vote while only 64.95% of users gave ICC an outperform vote.
ICC has a beta of 0.24, meaning that its stock price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kingstone Companies has a beta of 0.61, meaning that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.
46.5% of ICC shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.9% of Kingstone Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.1% of ICC shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.4% of Kingstone Companies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, ICC had 33 more articles in the media than Kingstone Companies. MarketBeat recorded 36 mentions for ICC and 3 mentions for Kingstone Companies. ICC's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Kingstone Companies' score of -0.15 indicating that Kingstone Companies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
ICC beats Kingstone Companies on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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