KFS vs. HIPO, TIPT, AMBC, WDH, MCG, TWFG, GOCO, HRTG, HIT, and NODK
Should you be buying Kingsway Financial Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kingsway Financial Services include Hippo (HIPO), Tiptree (TIPT), Ambac Financial Group (AMBC), Waterdrop (WDH), Membership Collective Group (MCG), TWFG (TWFG), GoHealth (GOCO), Heritage Insurance (HRTG), Health In Tech (HIT), and NI (NODK). These companies are all part of the "insurance" industry.
Kingsway Financial Services vs.
Kingsway Financial Services (NYSE:KFS) and Hippo (NYSE:HIPO) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, community ranking, earnings, valuation and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Hippo had 6 more articles in the media than Kingsway Financial Services. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Hippo and 1 mentions for Kingsway Financial Services. Kingsway Financial Services' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Hippo's score of -0.36 indicating that Kingsway Financial Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
72.4% of Kingsway Financial Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.0% of Hippo shares are held by institutional investors. 54.8% of Kingsway Financial Services shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 11.4% of Hippo shares are held by 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.
Hippo has a consensus price target of $28.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.34%. Given Hippo's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Hippo is more favorable than Kingsway Financial Services.
Kingsway Financial Services has a beta of -0.06, indicating that its stock price is 106% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hippo has a beta of 1.52, indicating that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Kingsway Financial Services has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Hippo.
Kingsway Financial Services has a net margin of -3.63% compared to Hippo's net margin of -37.94%. Kingsway Financial Services' return on equity of -7.83% beat Hippo's return on equity.
Kingsway Financial Services received 106 more outperform votes than Hippo when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.00% of users gave Kingsway Financial Services an outperform vote while only 40.00% of users gave Hippo an outperform vote.
Summary
Kingsway Financial Services beats Hippo on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:KFS) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
