FANH vs. WDH, SLQT, RDZN, GOCO, EHTH, ZBAO, HUIZ, TIRX, MMC, and AON
Should you be buying Fanhua stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fanhua include Waterdrop (WDH), SelectQuote (SLQT), Roadzen (RDZN), GoHealth (GOCO), eHealth (EHTH), Zhibao Technology (ZBAO), Huize (HUIZ), Tian Ruixiang (TIRX), Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC), and AON (AON). These companies are all part of the "insurance agents, brokers, & service" industry.
Waterdrop (NYSE:WDH) and Fanhua (NASDAQ:FANH) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.
2.0% of Waterdrop shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.7% of Fanhua shares are held by institutional investors. 24.6% of Waterdrop shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 25.6% of Fanhua shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Fanhua had 1 more articles in the media than Waterdrop. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Fanhua and 3 mentions for Waterdrop. Waterdrop's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Fanhua's score of 0.33 indicating that Fanhua is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Fanhua has a net margin of 8.67% compared to Fanhua's net margin of 6.40%. Waterdrop's return on equity of 12.11% beat Fanhua's return on equity.
Fanhua has higher revenue and earnings than Waterdrop. Fanhua is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Waterdrop, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Waterdrop currently has a consensus target price of $2.80, indicating a potential upside of 104.38%. Given Fanhua's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Waterdrop is more favorable than Fanhua.
Fanhua received 223 more outperform votes than Waterdrop when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.43% of users gave Waterdrop an outperform vote while only 54.31% of users gave Fanhua an outperform vote.
Summary
Fanhua beats Waterdrop on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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