FGF vs. KINS, ICCH, OXBR, CNFR, UNAM, BRK.A, BRK.B, PGR, CB, and AIG
Should you be buying Fundamental Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fundamental Global include Kingstone Companies (KINS), ICC (ICCH), Oxbridge Re (OXBR), Conifer (CNFR), Unico American (UNAM), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B), Progressive (PGR), Chubb (CB), and American International Group (AIG). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Kingstone Companies (NASDAQ:KINS) and Fundamental Global (NASDAQ:FGF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Kingstone Companies had 8 more articles in the media than Fundamental Global. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Kingstone Companies and 3 mentions for Fundamental Global. Kingstone Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Fundamental Global's score of -0.31 indicating that Fundamental Global is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kingstone Companies has a net margin of 0.22% compared to Kingstone Companies' net margin of -6.73%. Fundamental Global's return on equity of -3.04% beat Kingstone Companies' return on equity.
Kingstone Companies has a beta of 0.61, meaning that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fundamental Global has a beta of 0.48, meaning that its stock price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Kingstone Companies currently has a consensus price target of $1.75, suggesting a potential downside of 63.69%. Given Fundamental Global's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Kingstone Companies is more favorable than Fundamental Global.
Kingstone Companies received 185 more outperform votes than Fundamental Global when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.84% of users gave Kingstone Companies an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Fundamental Global an outperform vote.
14.9% of Kingstone Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.1% of Fundamental Global shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.4% of Kingstone Companies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 62.7% of Fundamental Global shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Fundamental Global has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kingstone Companies. Kingstone Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fundamental Global, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Kingstone Companies beats Fundamental Global on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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