EQH vs. WTW, BRO, ERIE, RYAN, ACT, CRVL, BWIN, 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), CorVel (CRVL), The Baldwin Insurance Group (BWIN), The Baldwin Insurance Group (BRP), Hagerty (HGTY), and Goosehead Insurance (GSHD). These companies are all part of the "insurance agents, brokers, & service" industry.
Willis Towers Watson Public (NASDAQ:WTW) and Equitable (NYSE:EQH) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends and media sentiment.
Willis Towers Watson Public has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
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.
Willis Towers Watson Public has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Equitable has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Willis Towers Watson Public has a net margin of 10.88% compared to Willis Towers Watson Public's net margin of 0.00%. Equitable's return on equity of 16.31% beat Willis Towers Watson Public's return on equity.
Willis Towers Watson Public pays an annual dividend of $3.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Equitable pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Willis Towers Watson Public pays out 35.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Equitable pays out 27.2% 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. Willis Towers Watson Public has raised its dividend for 7 consecutive years and Equitable has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years. Equitable is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
93.1% of Willis Towers Watson Public shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of Equitable shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Willis Towers Watson Public shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Equitable shares are held 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.
In the previous week, Willis Towers Watson Public had 4 more articles in the media than Equitable. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Willis Towers Watson Public and 11 mentions for Equitable. Willis Towers Watson Public's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Equitable's score of 0.72 indicating that Equitable is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Willis Towers Watson Public presently has a consensus price target of $296.14, suggesting a potential upside of 18.15%. Equitable has a consensus price target of $40.10, suggesting a potential downside of 1.35%. Given Equitable's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Willis Towers Watson Public is more favorable than Equitable.
Summary
Willis Towers Watson Public beats Equitable on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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