NMIH vs. AGO, AMBC, RDN, MBI, MTG, ESNT, ORI, MGRC, CATY, and FHI
Should you be buying NMI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NMI include Assured Guaranty (AGO), Ambac Financial Group (AMBC), Radian Group (RDN), MBIA (MBI), MGIC Investment (MTG), Essent Group (ESNT), Old Republic International (ORI), McGrath RentCorp (MGRC), Cathay General Bancorp (CATY), and Federated Hermes (FHI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Assured Guaranty (NYSE:AGO) and NMI (NASDAQ:NMIH) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking and media sentiment.
Assured Guaranty currently has a consensus price target of $97.00, indicating a potential upside of 28.97%. NMI has a consensus price target of $35.22, indicating a potential upside of 5.55%. Given NMI's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Assured Guaranty is more favorable than NMI.
In the previous week, NMI had 3 more articles in the media than Assured Guaranty. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for NMI and 3 mentions for Assured Guaranty. NMI's average media sentiment score of 1.29 beat Assured Guaranty's score of 0.87 indicating that Assured Guaranty is being referred to more favorably in the media.
NMI received 11 more outperform votes than Assured Guaranty when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.81% of users gave Assured Guaranty an outperform vote while only 65.33% of users gave NMI an outperform vote.
Assured Guaranty has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NMI has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
92.2% of Assured Guaranty shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.1% of NMI shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.1% of Assured Guaranty shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of NMI shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Assured Guaranty has higher revenue and earnings than NMI. Assured Guaranty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NMI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Assured Guaranty has a net margin of 57.45% compared to Assured Guaranty's net margin of 56.26%. Assured Guaranty's return on equity of 18.09% beat NMI's return on equity.
Summary
Assured Guaranty and NMI tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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