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 better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, valuation, risk and analyst recommendations.
Maiden has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ICC has a beta of 0.24, indicating that its share price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
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 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.
21.8% of Maiden shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.5% of ICC shares are held by institutional investors. 8.2% of Maiden shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 24.1% of ICC shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, ICC had 17 more articles in the media than Maiden. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for ICC and 3 mentions for Maiden. ICC's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Maiden's score of -0.22 indicating that Maiden is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
ICC beats Maiden on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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