TIPT vs. UFCS, PRA, UVE, GLRE, AMSF, HIPO, DGICA, GBLI, ROOT, and TCPC
Should you be buying Tiptree stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tiptree include United Fire Group (UFCS), ProAssurance (PRA), Universal Insurance (UVE), Greenlight Capital Re (GLRE), AMERISAFE (AMSF), Hippo (HIPO), Donegal Group (DGICA), Global Indemnity Group (GBLI), Root (ROOT), and BlackRock TCP Capital (TCPC). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Tiptree (NASDAQ:TIPT) and United Fire Group (NASDAQ:UFCS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Tiptree had 2 more articles in the media than United Fire Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Tiptree and 3 mentions for United Fire Group. Tiptree's average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat United Fire Group's score of 0.08 indicating that Tiptree is being referred to more favorably in the media.
United Fire Group has a consensus target price of $21.00, indicating a potential downside of 8.66%. Given United Fire Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe United Fire Group is more favorable than Tiptree.
United Fire Group received 47 more outperform votes than Tiptree when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.65% of users gave Tiptree an outperform vote while only 58.56% of users gave United Fire Group an outperform vote.
Tiptree pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. United Fire Group pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Tiptree pays out 42.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. United Fire Group pays out -92.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. United Fire Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Tiptree has higher revenue and earnings than United Fire Group. United Fire Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tiptree, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Tiptree has a net margin of 1.36% compared to United Fire Group's net margin of -1.50%. Tiptree's return on equity of 12.49% beat United Fire Group's return on equity.
Tiptree has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, United Fire Group has a beta of 0.34, suggesting that its share price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500.
37.8% of Tiptree shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.7% of United Fire Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.8% of Tiptree shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.0% of United Fire Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Tiptree beats United Fire Group on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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