MBI vs. SAFT, EIG, HCI, AMSF, PRA, UVE, UFCS, DGICA, GBLI, and ITIC
Should you be buying MBIA stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MBIA include Safety Insurance Group (SAFT), Employers (EIG), HCI Group (HCI), AMERISAFE (AMSF), ProAssurance (PRA), Universal Insurance (UVE), United Fire Group (UFCS), Donegal Group (DGICA), Global Indemnity Group (GBLI), and Investors Title (ITIC). These companies are all part of the "property & casualty insurance" industry.
Safety Insurance Group (NASDAQ:SAFT) and MBIA (NYSE:MBI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Safety Insurance Group has a beta of 0.19, suggesting that its stock price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MBIA has a beta of 1.47, suggesting that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Safety Insurance Group has higher revenue and earnings than MBIA. MBIA is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Safety Insurance Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
81.0% of Safety Insurance Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.0% of MBIA shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Safety Insurance Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.6% of MBIA shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Safety Insurance Group has a net margin of 5.20% compared to Safety Insurance Group's net margin of -425.26%. MBIA's return on equity of 4.90% beat Safety Insurance Group's return on equity.
MBIA has a consensus price target of $6.75, indicating a potential upside of 19.47%. Given Safety Insurance Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe MBIA is more favorable than Safety Insurance Group.
In the previous week, Safety Insurance Group had 2 more articles in the media than MBIA. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Safety Insurance Group and 2 mentions for MBIA. MBIA's average media sentiment score of 1.70 beat Safety Insurance Group's score of -0.75 indicating that Safety Insurance Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
MBIA received 207 more outperform votes than Safety Insurance Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.86% of users gave MBIA an outperform vote while only 56.75% of users gave Safety Insurance Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Safety Insurance Group beats MBIA on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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