PLMR vs. HMN, MAX, LMND, SAFT, EIG, RLI, AXS, SIGI, ESGR, and THG
Should you be buying Palomar stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Palomar include Horace Mann Educators (HMN), MediaAlpha (MAX), Lemonade (LMND), Safety Insurance Group (SAFT), Employers (EIG), RLI (RLI), AXIS Capital (AXS), Selective Insurance Group (SIGI), Enstar Group (ESGR), and The Hanover Insurance Group (THG).
Horace Mann Educators (NYSE:HMN) and Palomar (NASDAQ:PLMR) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk and analyst recommendations.
Horace Mann Educators received 107 more outperform votes than Palomar when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.27% of users gave Palomar an outperform vote while only 50.84% of users gave Horace Mann Educators an outperform vote.
Horace Mann Educators currently has a consensus target price of $38.50, suggesting a potential upside of 14.28%. Palomar has a consensus target price of $89.17, suggesting a potential upside of 10.51%. Given Palomar's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Horace Mann Educators is more favorable than Palomar.
99.3% of Horace Mann Educators shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.3% of Palomar shares are held by institutional investors. 3.8% of Horace Mann Educators shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Palomar shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Horace Mann Educators had 1 more articles in the media than Palomar. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Horace Mann Educators and 8 mentions for Palomar. Horace Mann Educators' average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Palomar's score of 0.91 indicating that Palomar is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Palomar has a net margin of 21.78% compared to Palomar's net margin of 4.26%. Horace Mann Educators' return on equity of 19.94% beat Palomar's return on equity.
Horace Mann Educators has a beta of 0.26, meaning that its stock price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Palomar has a beta of 0.24, meaning that its stock price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Palomar has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Horace Mann Educators. Horace Mann Educators is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Palomar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Palomar beats Horace Mann Educators on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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