EG vs. WRB, CINF, L, CNA, RNR, AFG, HIG, KNSL, RLI, and SIGI
Should you be buying Everest Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Everest Group include W. R. Berkley (WRB), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), Loews (L), CNA Financial (CNA), RenaissanceRe (RNR), American Financial Group (AFG), The Hartford Financial Services Group (HIG), Kinsale Capital Group (KNSL), RLI (RLI), and Selective Insurance Group (SIGI). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
W. R. Berkley (NYSE:WRB) and Everest Group (NYSE:EG) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, valuation, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability and media sentiment.
W. R. Berkley pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Everest Group pays an annual dividend of $7.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. W. R. Berkley pays out 7.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Everest Group pays out 10.4% 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. W. R. Berkley has increased its dividend for 22 consecutive years and Everest Group has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
W. R. Berkley presently has a consensus target price of $90.38, indicating a potential upside of 14.63%. Everest Group has a consensus target price of $432.11, indicating a potential upside of 13.23%. Given Everest Group's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe W. R. Berkley is more favorable than Everest Group.
Everest Group has a net margin of 18.69% compared to Everest Group's net margin of 12.23%. W. R. Berkley's return on equity of 24.86% beat Everest Group's return on equity.
Everest Group has higher revenue and earnings than W. R. Berkley. Everest Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than W. R. Berkley, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
W. R. Berkley has a beta of 0.6, meaning that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Everest Group has a beta of 0.57, meaning that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Everest Group had 2 more articles in the media than W. R. Berkley. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Everest Group and 10 mentions for W. R. Berkley. W. R. Berkley's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Everest Group's score of 0.61 indicating that Everest Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
68.8% of W. R. Berkley shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.6% of Everest Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.9% of W. R. Berkley shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Everest Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
W. R. Berkley received 302 more outperform votes than Everest Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.11% of users gave Everest Group an outperform vote while only 51.14% of users gave W. R. Berkley an outperform vote.
Summary
Everest Group beats W. R. Berkley on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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