HCI vs. SAFT, EIG, AMSF, PRA, UFCS, UVE, DGICA, GBLI, MCY, and LMND
Should you be buying HCI Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HCI Group include Safety Insurance Group (SAFT), Employers (EIG), AMERISAFE (AMSF), ProAssurance (PRA), United Fire Group (UFCS), Universal Insurance (UVE), Donegal Group (DGICA), Global Indemnity Group (GBLI), Mercury General (MCY), and Lemonade (LMND). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Safety Insurance Group (NASDAQ:SAFT) and HCI Group (NYSE:HCI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability and valuation.
HCI Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Safety Insurance Group. HCI Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Safety Insurance Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
HCI Group has a net margin of 17.72% compared to HCI Group's net margin of 5.20%. Safety Insurance Group's return on equity of 40.30% beat HCI Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, HCI Group had 12 more articles in the media than Safety Insurance Group. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for HCI Group and 10 mentions for Safety Insurance Group. HCI Group's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Safety Insurance Group's score of 0.71 indicating that Safety Insurance Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Safety Insurance Group has a beta of 0.19, indicating that its share price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HCI Group has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
HCI Group received 98 more outperform votes than Safety Insurance Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.64% of users gave HCI Group an outperform vote while only 56.75% of users gave Safety Insurance Group an outperform vote.
Safety Insurance Group pays an annual dividend of $3.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. HCI Group pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Safety Insurance Group pays out 103.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. HCI Group pays out 16.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
HCI Group has a consensus price target of $127.75, indicating a potential upside of 23.80%. Given Safety Insurance Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe HCI Group is more favorable than Safety Insurance Group.
81.0% of Safety Insurance Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.0% of HCI Group shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Safety Insurance Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 25.3% of HCI Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
HCI Group beats Safety Insurance Group on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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