HRTG vs. HCI, TCPC, AMSF, ROOT, PRA, TIPT, UVE, UFCS, GLRE, and DGICA
Should you be buying Heritage Insurance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Heritage Insurance include HCI Group (HCI), BlackRock TCP Capital (TCPC), AMERISAFE (AMSF), Root (ROOT), ProAssurance (PRA), Tiptree (TIPT), Universal Insurance (UVE), United Fire Group (UFCS), Greenlight Capital Re (GLRE), and Donegal Group (DGICA). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
HCI Group (NYSE:HCI) and Heritage Insurance (NYSE:HRTG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, risk, community ranking, profitability and dividends.
HCI Group currently has a consensus target price of $127.75, suggesting a potential upside of 33.27%. Heritage Insurance has a consensus target price of $9.00, suggesting a potential upside of 10.43%. Given Heritage Insurance's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe HCI Group is more favorable than Heritage Insurance.
HCI Group has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Heritage Insurance has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
HCI Group has a net margin of 17.72% compared to HCI Group's net margin of 6.07%. Heritage Insurance's return on equity of 40.30% beat HCI Group's return on equity.
HCI Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Heritage Insurance. Heritage Insurance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HCI Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
87.0% of HCI Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.0% of Heritage Insurance shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.3% of HCI Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 14.0% of Heritage Insurance shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Heritage Insurance received 62 more outperform votes than HCI Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.73% of users gave Heritage Insurance an outperform vote while only 61.64% of users gave HCI Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, HCI Group had 5 more articles in the media than Heritage Insurance. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for HCI Group and 0 mentions for Heritage Insurance. Heritage Insurance's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat HCI Group's score of 0.67 indicating that HCI Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
HCI Group beats Heritage Insurance on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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