HIPO vs. GBLI, DGICA, GLRE, NODK, UFCS, UVE, JRVR, TIPT, HRTG, and KFS
Should you be buying Hippo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hippo include Global Indemnity Group (GBLI), Donegal Group (DGICA), Greenlight Capital Re (GLRE), NI (NODK), United Fire Group (UFCS), Universal Insurance (UVE), James River Group (JRVR), Tiptree (TIPT), Heritage Insurance (HRTG), and Kingsway Financial Services (KFS). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Global Indemnity Group (NASDAQ:GBLI) and Hippo (NYSE:HIPO) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability and institutional ownership.
Global Indemnity Group has a net margin of 6.98% compared to Global Indemnity Group's net margin of -93.69%. Hippo's return on equity of 5.40% beat Global Indemnity Group's return on equity.
37.4% of Global Indemnity Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.0% of Hippo shares are held by institutional investors. 52.8% of Global Indemnity Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.4% of Hippo shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Global Indemnity Group has a beta of 0.46, indicating that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hippo has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Global Indemnity Group received 167 more outperform votes than Hippo when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.02% of users gave Global Indemnity Group an outperform vote while only 38.89% of users gave Hippo an outperform vote.
Global Indemnity Group has higher revenue and earnings than Hippo. Hippo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Global Indemnity Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Hippo had 10 more articles in the media than Global Indemnity Group. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Hippo and 7 mentions for Global Indemnity Group. Hippo's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Global Indemnity Group's score of -0.27 indicating that Global Indemnity Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hippo has a consensus price target of $19.33, suggesting a potential upside of 10.22%. Given Global Indemnity Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Hippo is more favorable than Global Indemnity Group.
Summary
Global Indemnity Group beats Hippo on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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