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Investors Title (ITIC) Competitors

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$271.60 -3.18 (-1.16%)
(As of 11/15/2024 ET)

ITIC vs. ARGO, STC, EIG, SAFT, HCI, AMSF, PRA, UFCS, UVE, and DGICA

Should you be buying Investors Title stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Investors Title include Argo Group International (ARGO), Stewart Information Services (STC), Employers (EIG), Safety Insurance Group (SAFT), HCI Group (HCI), AMERISAFE (AMSF), ProAssurance (PRA), United Fire Group (UFCS), Universal Insurance (UVE), and Donegal Group (DGICA).

Investors Title vs.

Argo Group International (NYSE:ARGO) and Investors Title (NASDAQ:ITIC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking and dividends.

Argo Group International has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Investors Title has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Investors Title has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Argo Group International. Argo Group International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Investors Title, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Argo Group International$1.75B0.60-$175.20M-$5.65-5.31
Investors Title$241.35M2.12$21.69M$15.1117.97

Investors Title received 122 more outperform votes than Argo Group International when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.41% of users gave Investors Title an outperform vote while only 27.78% of users gave Argo Group International an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Argo Group InternationalOutperform Votes
20
27.78%
Underperform Votes
52
72.22%
Investors TitleOutperform Votes
142
59.41%
Underperform Votes
97
40.59%

Investors Title has a net margin of 11.83% compared to Argo Group International's net margin of -12.28%. Investors Title's return on equity of 10.99% beat Argo Group International's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Argo Group International-12.28% -11.08% -1.37%
Investors Title 11.83%10.99%8.44%

41.4% of Investors Title shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Argo Group International shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 26.5% of Investors Title shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Investors Title had 4 more articles in the media than Argo Group International. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Investors Title and 2 mentions for Argo Group International. Investors Title's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Argo Group International's score of 0.23 indicating that Investors Title is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Argo Group International
1 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Investors Title
0 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Investors Title beats Argo Group International on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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ITIC vs. The Competition

MetricInvestors TitleTitle insurance IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$511.72M$6.46B$11.00B$8.66B
Dividend Yield0.67%2.49%5.94%4.06%
P/E Ratio17.9736.9228.4217.27
Price / Sales2.121.3945.0369.06
Price / Cash23.3415.1318.4936.35
Price / Book1.891.623.695.87
Net Income$21.69M$196.48M$998.34M$225.66M
7 Day Performance8.00%2.86%-0.06%-1.34%
1 Month Performance11.91%2.15%1.86%1.15%
1 Year Performance78.11%47.00%24.78%24.02%

Investors Title Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ITIC
Investors Title
1.7571 of 5 stars
$271.60
-1.2%
N/A+80.9%$511.72M$241.35M17.97560Dividend Increase
Analyst Downgrade
Short Interest ↑
ARGO
Argo Group International
N/A$29.99
flat
N/AN/A$1.06B$1.75B-5.311,206News Coverage
STC
Stewart Information Services
2.5239 of 5 stars
$72.95
+0.8%
N/A+62.4%$2.02B$2.26B34.416,800Positive News
EIG
Employers
2.2144 of 5 stars
$53.32
+0.5%
N/A+39.4%$1.32B$850.90M9.99717Analyst Downgrade
Short Interest ↓
SAFT
Safety Insurance Group
3.6483 of 5 stars
$85.84
-0.9%
N/A+10.0%$1.27B$930.96M17.00539Analyst Upgrade
News Coverage
Positive News
HCI
HCI Group
4.5863 of 5 stars
$112.53
-2.7%
N/A+37.7%$1.19B$550.67M9.40530Short Interest ↓
AMSF
AMERISAFE
2.6905 of 5 stars
$59.29
-0.6%
N/A+17.2%$1.13B$306.85M18.53350Short Interest ↑
Positive News
PRA
ProAssurance
4.493 of 5 stars
$17.17
+0.4%
N/A+28.6%$878.42M$1.14B20.691,094Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
UFCS
United Fire Group
2.947 of 5 stars
$25.44
+0.3%
N/A+28.4%$644.65M$1.10B13.11852News Coverage
Positive News
UVE
Universal Insurance
4.8984 of 5 stars
$22.41
+0.1%
N/A+35.7%$633.98M$1.39B9.111,244Insider Selling
Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
DGICA
Donegal Group
3.5128 of 5 stars
$15.89
-0.1%
N/A+10.6%$532.00M$927.34M20.91880Insider Buying
News Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume

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This page (NASDAQ:ITIC) was last updated on 11/17/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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