ICCH vs. MHLD, KINS, FGF, OXBR, CNFR, UNAM, BRK.A, BRK.B, PGR, and CB
Should you be buying ICC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ICC include Maiden (MHLD), Kingstone Companies (KINS), Fundamental Global (FGF), Oxbridge Re (OXBR), Conifer (CNFR), Unico American (UNAM), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B), Progressive (PGR), and Chubb (CB). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Maiden (NASDAQ:MHLD) and ICC (NASDAQ:ICCH) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends and media sentiment.
In the previous week, ICC had 18 more articles in the media than Maiden. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for ICC and 3 mentions for Maiden. ICC's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Maiden's score of -0.22 indicating that Maiden is being referred to more favorably in the media.
ICC has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Maiden. Maiden is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ICC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Maiden has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ICC has a beta of 0.24, indicating that its stock price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500.
21.8% of Maiden shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.5% of ICC shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.2% of Maiden shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 24.1% of ICC shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Maiden received 139 more outperform votes than ICC when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.95% of users gave ICC an outperform vote while only 55.21% of users gave Maiden an outperform vote.
ICC has a net margin of 5.91% compared to ICC's net margin of -26.14%. Maiden's return on equity of 7.91% beat ICC's return on equity.
Summary
ICC beats Maiden on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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