SIGI vs. RLI, AXS, THG, WTM, MCY, MAX, LMND, ROOT, CNA, and CINF
Should you be buying Selective Insurance Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Selective Insurance Group include RLI (RLI), AXIS Capital (AXS), The Hanover Insurance Group (THG), White Mountains Insurance Group (WTM), Mercury General (MCY), MediaAlpha (MAX), Lemonade (LMND), Root (ROOT), CNA Financial (CNA), and Cincinnati Financial (CINF).
RLI (NYSE:RLI) and Selective Insurance Group (NASDAQ:SIGI) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Selective Insurance Group received 45 more outperform votes than RLI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.96% of users gave Selective Insurance Group an outperform vote while only 55.53% of users gave RLI an outperform vote.
RLI pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Selective Insurance Group pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. RLI pays out 14.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Selective Insurance Group pays out 24.0% 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. RLI has raised its dividend for 49 consecutive years and Selective Insurance Group has raised its dividend for 10 consecutive years.
In the previous week, RLI had 29 more articles in the media than Selective Insurance Group. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for RLI and 3 mentions for Selective Insurance Group. Selective Insurance Group's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat RLI's score of 0.47 indicating that RLI is being referred to more favorably in the media.
77.9% of RLI shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.9% of Selective Insurance Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.1% of RLI shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Selective Insurance Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Selective Insurance Group has higher revenue and earnings than RLI. Selective Insurance Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RLI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
RLI presently has a consensus price target of $163.25, suggesting a potential upside of 13.25%. Selective Insurance Group has a consensus price target of $105.17, suggesting a potential upside of 5.03%. Given Selective Insurance Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe RLI is more favorable than Selective Insurance Group.
RLI has a net margin of 20.96% compared to RLI's net margin of 8.57%. Selective Insurance Group's return on equity of 17.24% beat RLI's return on equity.
RLI has a beta of 0.37, suggesting that its share price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Selective Insurance Group has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
RLI beats Selective Insurance Group on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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