AMBC vs. MBI, NMIH, HPP, WRLD, BDN, BFC, BRSP, SBSI, IRS, and EVER
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), Hudson Pacific Properties (HPP), World Acceptance (WRLD), Brandywine Realty Trust (BDN), Bank First (BFC), BrightSpire Capital (BRSP), Southside Bancshares (SBSI), IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima (IRS), and EverQuote (EVER). 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 stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.
MBIA has a beta of 1.47, meaning that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ambac Financial Group has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
61.0% of MBIA shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.5% of Ambac Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.6% of MBIA shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of Ambac Financial Group shares are owned 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.
MBIA currently has a consensus price target of $7.25, suggesting a potential upside of 20.83%. Ambac Financial Group has a consensus price target of $19.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.97%. Given Ambac Financial Group's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe MBIA is more favorable than Ambac Financial Group.
In the previous week, Ambac Financial Group had 1 more articles in the media than MBIA. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Ambac Financial Group and 1 mentions for MBIA. MBIA's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Ambac Financial Group's score of 0.89 indicating that Ambac Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
MBIA received 348 more outperform votes than Ambac Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.00% of users gave MBIA an outperform vote while only 8.70% of users gave Ambac Financial Group an outperform vote.
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.
Ambac Financial Group has a net margin of 18.09% compared to Ambac Financial Group's net margin of -425.26%. MBIA's return on equity of 10.69% beat Ambac Financial Group'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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