MHLD vs. HRTG, PTVCA, KINS, UIHC, GLRE, RGA, RNR, ESGR, PRA, and TIPT
Should you be buying Maiden stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Maiden include Heritage Insurance (HRTG), Protective Insurance (PTVCA), Kingstone Companies (KINS), United Insurance (UIHC), Greenlight Capital Re (GLRE), Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), RenaissanceRe (RNR), Enstar Group (ESGR), ProAssurance (PRA), and Tiptree (TIPT). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Maiden (NASDAQ:MHLD) and Heritage Insurance (NYSE:HRTG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, risk, earnings, community ranking and profitability.
21.8% of Maiden shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.0% of Heritage Insurance shares are held by institutional investors. 8.2% of Maiden shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.0% of Heritage Insurance shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Maiden has a beta of 1.37, meaning that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Heritage Insurance has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Heritage Insurance received 38 more outperform votes than Maiden when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.73% of users gave Heritage Insurance an outperform vote while only 55.21% of users gave Maiden an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Heritage Insurance had 3 more articles in the media than Maiden. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Heritage Insurance and 2 mentions for Maiden. Heritage Insurance's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Maiden's score of 0.62 indicating that Heritage Insurance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Heritage Insurance has a consensus price target of $9.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.88%. Given Heritage Insurance's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Heritage Insurance is more favorable than Maiden.
Heritage Insurance has higher revenue and earnings than Maiden. Maiden is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Heritage Insurance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Heritage Insurance has a net margin of 6.07% compared to Maiden's net margin of -26.14%. Heritage Insurance's return on equity of 24.02% beat Maiden's return on equity.
Summary
Heritage Insurance beats Maiden on 15 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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