NMIH vs. GNW, MTG, ORI, ESNT, RDN, AGO, AMBC, MBI, EWBC, and UNM
Should you be buying NMI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NMI include Genworth Financial (GNW), MGIC Investment (MTG), Old Republic International (ORI), Essent Group (ESNT), Radian Group (RDN), Assured Guaranty (AGO), Ambac Financial Group (AMBC), MBIA (MBI), East West Bancorp (EWBC), and Unum Group (UNM).
Genworth Financial (NYSE:GNW) and NMI (NASDAQ:NMIH) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Genworth Financial presently has a consensus target price of $7.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.24%. NMI has a consensus target price of $35.56, indicating a potential upside of 7.84%. Given NMI's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Genworth Financial is more favorable than NMI.
In the previous week, Genworth Financial had 2 more articles in the media than NMI. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Genworth Financial and 2 mentions for NMI. Genworth Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat NMI's score of 0.81 indicating that NMI is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
81.9% of Genworth Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.1% of NMI shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Genworth Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of NMI shares are held 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.
Genworth Financial received 134 more outperform votes than NMI when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.22% of users gave NMI an outperform vote while only 61.13% of users gave Genworth Financial an outperform vote.
NMI has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Genworth Financial. NMI is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Genworth Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Genworth Financial has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NMI has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
NMI has a net margin of 56.26% compared to NMI's net margin of 1.24%. Genworth Financial's return on equity of 18.09% beat NMI's return on equity.
Summary
NMI beats Genworth Financial on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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