JRVR vs. AMBC, MCG, WDH, TWFG, GOCO, HRTG, HIT, NODK, KFS, and KINS
Should you be buying James River Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of James River Group include Ambac Financial Group (AMBC), Membership Collective Group (MCG), Waterdrop (WDH), TWFG (TWFG), GoHealth (GOCO), Heritage Insurance (HRTG), Health In Tech (HIT), NI (NODK), Kingsway Financial Services (KFS), and Kingstone Companies (KINS). These companies are all part of the "insurance" industry.
James River Group vs.
Ambac Financial Group (NYSE:AMBC) and James River Group (NASDAQ:JRVR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends and community ranking.
Ambac Financial Group has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, James River Group has a beta of 0.07, suggesting that its share price is 93% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, James River Group had 4 more articles in the media than Ambac Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for James River Group and 1 mentions for Ambac Financial Group. James River Group's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Ambac Financial Group's score of 0.00 indicating that James River Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ambac Financial Group presently has a consensus target price of $17.00, indicating a potential upside of 46.21%. James River Group has a consensus target price of $10.40, indicating a potential upside of 117.12%. Given James River Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe James River Group is more favorable than Ambac Financial Group.
84.5% of Ambac Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.2% of James River Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.0% of Ambac Financial Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.5% of James River Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
James River Group received 347 more outperform votes than Ambac Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.64% of users gave James River Group an outperform vote while only 14.81% of users gave Ambac Financial Group an outperform vote.
Ambac Financial Group has a net margin of -6.28% compared to James River Group's net margin of -20.84%. James River Group's return on equity of 3.90% beat Ambac Financial Group's return on equity.
Ambac Financial Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than James River Group. Ambac Financial Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than James River Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
James River Group beats Ambac Financial Group on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:JRVR) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
