PRA vs. HTH, STC, SAFT, EIG, HCI, AMSF, UFCS, UVE, DGICA, and GBLI
Should you be buying ProAssurance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ProAssurance include Hilltop (HTH), Stewart Information Services (STC), Safety Insurance Group (SAFT), Employers (EIG), HCI Group (HCI), AMERISAFE (AMSF), United Fire Group (UFCS), Universal Insurance (UVE), Donegal Group (DGICA), and Global Indemnity Group (GBLI). These companies are all part of the "property & casualty insurance" industry.
ProAssurance (NYSE:PRA) and Hilltop (NYSE:HTH) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.
ProAssurance currently has a consensus price target of $17.67, suggesting a potential upside of 29.62%. Hilltop has a consensus price target of $32.00, suggesting a potential upside of 5.68%. Given ProAssurance's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe ProAssurance is more favorable than Hilltop.
Hilltop has a net margin of 6.95% compared to ProAssurance's net margin of -2.42%. Hilltop's return on equity of 5.24% beat ProAssurance's return on equity.
Hilltop has higher revenue and earnings than ProAssurance. ProAssurance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hilltop, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ProAssurance has a beta of 0.24, indicating that its stock price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hilltop has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, ProAssurance had 2 more articles in the media than Hilltop. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for ProAssurance and 1 mentions for Hilltop. ProAssurance's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Hilltop's score of 0.00 indicating that ProAssurance is being referred to more favorably in the media.
85.6% of ProAssurance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.1% of Hilltop shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of ProAssurance shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 28.9% of Hilltop shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
ProAssurance received 13 more outperform votes than Hilltop when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.72% of users gave ProAssurance an outperform vote while only 53.76% of users gave Hilltop an outperform vote.
Summary
Hilltop beats ProAssurance on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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