EQH vs. WTW, BRO, ERIE, RYAN, ACT, BWIN, CRVL, BRP, HGTY, and GSHD
Should you be buying Equitable stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Equitable include Willis Towers Watson Public (WTW), Brown & Brown (BRO), Erie Indemnity (ERIE), Ryan Specialty (RYAN), Enact (ACT), The Baldwin Insurance Group (BWIN), CorVel (CRVL), The Baldwin Insurance Group (BRP), Hagerty (HGTY), and Goosehead Insurance (GSHD). These companies are all part of the "insurance agents, brokers, & service" industry.
Equitable (NYSE:EQH) and Willis Towers Watson Public (NASDAQ:WTW) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation and risk.
Equitable presently has a consensus price target of $40.10, suggesting a potential downside of 0.15%. Willis Towers Watson Public has a consensus price target of $296.14, suggesting a potential upside of 15.91%. Given Willis Towers Watson Public's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Willis Towers Watson Public is more favorable than Equitable.
Equitable pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Willis Towers Watson Public pays an annual dividend of $3.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Equitable pays out 29.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Willis Towers Watson Public pays out 35.3% 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. Equitable is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
92.7% of Equitable shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.1% of Willis Towers Watson Public shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Equitable shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Willis Towers Watson Public shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Equitable and Equitable both had 9 articles in the media. Equitable's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Willis Towers Watson Public's score of 1.10 indicating that Equitable is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Equitable received 230 more outperform votes than Willis Towers Watson Public when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.47% of users gave Equitable an outperform vote while only 35.06% of users gave Willis Towers Watson Public an outperform vote.
Equitable has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Willis Towers Watson Public has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Willis Towers Watson Public has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Equitable. Equitable is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Willis Towers Watson Public, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Willis Towers Watson Public has a net margin of 10.88% compared to Equitable's net margin of 0.00%. Willis Towers Watson Public's return on equity of 16.31% beat Equitable's return on equity.
Summary
Willis Towers Watson Public beats Equitable on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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