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NNGRY vs. BWIN: Which Stock Is the Better Value Option?

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Investors with an interest in Insurance - Life Insurance stocks have likely encountered both NN Group NV Unsponsored ADR (NNGRY - Free Report) and The Baldwin Insurance Group (BWIN - Free Report) . But which of these two stocks presents investors with the better value opportunity right now? Let's take a closer look.

There are plenty of strategies for discovering value stocks, but we have found that pairing a strong Zacks Rank with an impressive grade in the Value category of our Style Scores system produces the best returns. The Zacks Rank favors stocks with strong earnings estimate revision trends, and our Style Scores highlight companies with specific traits.

NN Group NV Unsponsored ADR has a Zacks Rank of #1 (Strong Buy), while The Baldwin Insurance Group has a Zacks Rank of #2 (Buy) right now. This system places an emphasis on companies that have seen positive earnings estimate revisions, so investors should feel comfortable knowing that NNGRY is likely seeing its earnings outlook improve to a greater extent. But this is just one factor that value investors are interested in.

Value investors also try to analyze a wide range of traditional figures and metrics to help determine whether a company is undervalued at its current share price levels.

Our Value category highlights undervalued companies by looking at a variety of key metrics, including the popular P/E ratio, as well as the P/S ratio, earnings yield, cash flow per share, and a variety of other fundamentals that have been used by value investors for years.

NNGRY currently has a forward P/E ratio of 8.09, while BWIN has a forward P/E of 22.88. We also note that NNGRY has a PEG ratio of 0.74. This popular figure is similar to the widely-used P/E ratio, but the PEG ratio also considers a company's expected EPS growth rate. BWIN currently has a PEG ratio of 1.16.

Another notable valuation metric for NNGRY is its P/B ratio of 0.77. The P/B ratio is used to compare a stock's market value with its book value, which is defined as total assets minus total liabilities. For comparison, BWIN has a P/B of 4.62.

These are just a few of the metrics contributing to NNGRY's Value grade of B and BWIN's Value grade of F.

NNGRY sticks out from BWIN in both our Zacks Rank and Style Scores models, so value investors will likely feel that NNGRY is the better option right now.


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