KINS vs. ICCH, FGF, CNFR, FSEA, INTG, CFSB, BYFC, TCBS, CIZN, and SHFS
Should you be buying Kingstone Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kingstone Companies include ICC (ICCH), Fundamental Global (FGF), Conifer (CNFR), First Seacoast Bancorp (FSEA), The InterGroup (INTG), CFSB Bancorp (CFSB), Broadway Financial (BYFC), Texas Community Bancshares (TCBS), Citizens (CIZN), and SHF (SHFS).
ICC (NASDAQ:ICCH) and Kingstone Companies (NASDAQ:KINS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
ICC has a beta of 0.24, suggesting that its stock price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kingstone Companies has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
ICC has a net margin of 5.91% compared to ICC's net margin of 0.22%. Kingstone Companies' return on equity of 7.91% beat ICC's return on equity.
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.
In the previous week, ICC had 21 more articles in the media than Kingstone Companies. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for ICC and 6 mentions for Kingstone Companies. ICC's average media sentiment score of 0.11 beat Kingstone Companies' score of 0.00 indicating that Kingstone Companies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
46.5% of ICC shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.9% of Kingstone Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.1% of ICC shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.4% of Kingstone Companies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Kingstone Companies has a consensus price target of $1.75, indicating a potential downside of 62.45%. Given ICC's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Kingstone Companies is more favorable than ICC.
Summary
ICC beats Kingstone Companies on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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