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OB vs. HCI, EIG, SAFT, AMSF, PRA, UFCS, UVE, DGICA, GBLI, and ITIC

Should you be buying Outbrain stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Outbrain include HCI Group (HCI), Employers (EIG), Safety Insurance Group (SAFT), AMERISAFE (AMSF), ProAssurance (PRA), United Fire Group (UFCS), Universal Insurance (UVE), Donegal Group (DGICA), Global Indemnity Group (GBLI), and Investors Title (ITIC). These companies are all part of the "property & casualty insurance" industry.

Outbrain vs.

HCI Group (NYSE:HCI) and Outbrain (NASDAQ:OB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, dividends, community ranking and analyst recommendations.

In the previous week, HCI Group had 2 more articles in the media than Outbrain. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for HCI Group and 0 mentions for Outbrain. Outbrain's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat HCI Group's score of 0.46 indicating that Outbrain is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
HCI Group Neutral
Outbrain Positive

Outbrain received 21 more outperform votes than HCI Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.85% of users gave HCI Group an outperform vote while only 60.59% of users gave Outbrain an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
HCI GroupOutperform Votes
248
61.85%
Underperform Votes
153
38.15%
OutbrainOutperform Votes
269
60.59%
Underperform Votes
175
39.41%

HCI Group has a net margin of 19.37% compared to Outbrain's net margin of 0.39%. HCI Group's return on equity of 34.17% beat Outbrain's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
HCI Group19.37% 34.17% 7.44%
Outbrain 0.39%2.18%0.79%

HCI Group presently has a consensus target price of $140.00, indicating a potential upside of 19.23%. Outbrain has a consensus target price of $7.26, indicating a potential upside of 19.60%. Given Outbrain's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Outbrain is more favorable than HCI Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
HCI Group
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.80
Outbrain
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.40

87.0% of HCI Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.4% of Outbrain shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.0% of HCI Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.9% of Outbrain shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
HCI Group$550.67M2.25$79.03M$11.979.81
Outbrain$935.82M0.32$10.24M-$0.05-121.40

HCI Group has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Outbrain has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

HCI Group beats Outbrain on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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OB vs. The Competition

MetricOutbrainComputer & Data IndustryBusiness SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$301.38M$83.91B$7.84B$8.99B
Dividend YieldN/A0.81%2.21%3.85%
P/E Ratio-121.4043.3933.3018.54
Price / Sales0.32227.2564.2279.35
Price / Cash26.2331.3132.3137.40
Price / Book1.365.595.424.64
Net Income$10.24M$3.40B$187.27M$245.69M
7 Day Performance-9.94%-5.39%-2.92%-2.67%
1 Month Performance-6.47%3.02%-1.50%-2.16%
1 Year Performance47.33%70.08%18.50%12.90%

Outbrain Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
OB
Outbrain
3.2386 of 5 stars
$6.07
-7.2%
$7.26
+19.6%
+45.2%$324.71M$935.82M-121.401,020Positive News
HCI
HCI Group
3.7402 of 5 stars
$120.34
-1.8%
$140.00
+16.3%
+23.0%$1.27B$750.67M10.05530Upcoming Earnings
EIG
Employers
2.8129 of 5 stars
$48.62
-2.0%
$58.00
+19.3%
+7.9%$1.20B$850.90M9.10680Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
News Coverage
SAFT
Safety Insurance Group
2.8509 of 5 stars
$77.74
-0.4%
N/A-9.3%$1.15B$930.96M15.39550Upcoming Earnings
Dividend Announcement
News Coverage
AMSF
AMERISAFE
3.0939 of 5 stars
$49.95
-0.7%
$59.50
+19.1%
+0.8%$951.55M$306.85M15.61350
PRA
ProAssurance
4.5695 of 5 stars
$14.69
-0.9%
$18.67
+27.1%
+6.2%$751.54M$1.14B17.701,094Upcoming Earnings
UFCS
United Fire Group
3.2782 of 5 stars
$24.78
-0.8%
$26.00
+4.9%
+8.6%$627.93M$1.10B12.771,090Gap Up
UVE
Universal Insurance
4.9128 of 5 stars
$19.92
-0.1%
$25.00
+25.5%
+13.3%$563.57M$1.39B8.101,244
DGICA
Donegal Group
3.8765 of 5 stars
$15.05
flat
N/A+7.7%$510.20M$927.34M19.80880Earnings Report
News Coverage
GBLI
Global Indemnity Group
N/A$35.67
-0.9%
N/A+26.6%$488.32M$528.13M12.26360Analyst Forecast
ITIC
Investors Title
2.2394 of 5 stars
$224.52
+0.2%
N/A+43.5%$422.10M$224.75M14.86560

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This page (NASDAQ:OB) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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