LMND vs. SAFT, HCI, EIG, SKWD, ROOT, AMSF, HMN, HG, PRA, and TIPT
Should you be buying Lemonade stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lemonade include Safety Insurance Group (SAFT), HCI Group (HCI), Employers (EIG), Skyward Specialty Insurance Group (SKWD), Root (ROOT), AMERISAFE (AMSF), Horace Mann Educators (HMN), Hamilton Insurance Group (HG), ProAssurance (PRA), and Tiptree (TIPT). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Lemonade (NYSE:LMND) and Safety Insurance Group (NASDAQ:SAFT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and earnings.
Lemonade has a beta of 1.82, indicating that its stock price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Safety Insurance Group has a beta of 0.19, indicating that its stock price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Safety Insurance Group received 117 more outperform votes than Lemonade when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.75% of users gave Safety Insurance Group an outperform vote while only 30.23% of users gave Lemonade an outperform vote.
Lemonade currently has a consensus price target of $18.86, suggesting a potential upside of 1.27%. Given Lemonade's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Lemonade is more favorable than Safety Insurance Group.
Safety Insurance Group has a net margin of 5.20% compared to Lemonade's net margin of -48.14%. Safety Insurance Group's return on equity of 4.90% beat Lemonade's return on equity.
Safety Insurance Group has higher revenue and earnings than Lemonade. Lemonade is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Safety Insurance Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Safety Insurance Group had 1 more articles in the media than Lemonade. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Safety Insurance Group and 10 mentions for Lemonade. Safety Insurance Group's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Lemonade's score of 0.86 indicating that Safety Insurance Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
80.3% of Lemonade shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.0% of Safety Insurance Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.5% of Lemonade shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Safety Insurance Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Safety Insurance Group beats Lemonade on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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