ICCH vs. KINS, INTG, ASPS, NSTS, BAFN, BOTJ, ICMB, CLST, FSEA, and SDIG
Should you be buying ICC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ICC include Kingstone Companies (KINS), The InterGroup (INTG), Altisource Portfolio Solutions (ASPS), NSTS Bancorp (NSTS), BayFirst Financial (BAFN), Bank of the James Financial Group (BOTJ), Investcorp Credit Management BDC (ICMB), Catalyst Bancorp (CLST), First Seacoast Bancorp (FSEA), and Stronghold Digital Mining (SDIG). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
ICC (NASDAQ:ICCH) and Kingstone Companies (NASDAQ:KINS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, earnings, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
ICC has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Kingstone Companies. Kingstone Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ICC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
46.5% of ICC shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.9% of Kingstone Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.8% of ICC shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.4% of Kingstone Companies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Kingstone Companies has a consensus price target of $1.75, suggesting a potential downside of 63.47%. Given Kingstone Companies' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Kingstone Companies is more favorable than ICC.
In the previous week, ICC had 26 more articles in the media than Kingstone Companies. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for ICC and 6 mentions for Kingstone Companies. Kingstone Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.12 beat ICC's score of 0.02 indicating that Kingstone Companies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ICC has a net margin of 5.91% compared to Kingstone Companies' net margin of 0.22%. ICC's return on equity of 7.91% beat Kingstone Companies' return on equity.
ICC has a beta of 0.24, suggesting that its share price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kingstone Companies has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Kingstone Companies received 58 more outperform votes than ICC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.71% of users gave Kingstone Companies an outperform vote while only 64.95% of users gave ICC an outperform vote.
Summary
ICC beats Kingstone Companies on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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