EG vs. L, CINF, WRB, CNA, RNR, AFG, KNSL, RLI, AXS, and SIGI
Should you be buying Everest Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Everest Group include Loews (L), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), W. R. Berkley (WRB), CNA Financial (CNA), RenaissanceRe (RNR), American Financial Group (AFG), Kinsale Capital Group (KNSL), RLI (RLI), AXIS Capital (AXS), and Selective Insurance Group (SIGI). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Loews (NYSE:L) and Everest Group (NYSE:EG) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Loews has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Everest Group has a beta of 0.57, meaning that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Loews received 259 more outperform votes than Everest Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.11% of users gave Everest Group an outperform vote while only 60.67% of users gave Loews an outperform vote.
Loews pays an annual dividend of $0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Everest Group pays an annual dividend of $7.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Loews pays out 3.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Everest Group pays out 10.4% 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. Everest Group has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Everest Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Loews presently has a consensus price target of $170.00, indicating a potential upside of 127.42%. Everest Group has a consensus price target of $432.11, indicating a potential upside of 10.29%. Given Everest Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Loews is more favorable than Everest Group.
Everest Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Loews. Everest Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Loews, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Everest Group has a net margin of 18.69% compared to Everest Group's net margin of 9.27%. Loews' return on equity of 24.86% beat Everest Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Everest Group had 9 more articles in the media than Loews. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Everest Group and 12 mentions for Loews. Everest Group's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Loews' score of 0.49 indicating that Loews is being referred to more favorably in the media.
58.3% of Loews shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.6% of Everest Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.7% of Loews shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Everest Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Everest Group beats Loews on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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