ORI vs. AGO, ESNT, MTG, RDN, NMIH, SF, FHN, KNSL, BSAC, and JLL
Should you be buying Old Republic International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Old Republic International include Assured Guaranty (AGO), Essent Group (ESNT), MGIC Investment (MTG), Radian Group (RDN), NMI (NMIH), Stifel Financial (SF), First Horizon (FHN), Kinsale Capital Group (KNSL), Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC), and Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Old Republic International (NYSE:ORI) and Assured Guaranty (NYSE:AGO) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation and earnings.
Old Republic International presently has a consensus target price of $34.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.04%. Assured Guaranty has a consensus target price of $97.00, suggesting a potential upside of 24.57%. Given Assured Guaranty's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Assured Guaranty is more favorable than Old Republic International.
Assured Guaranty has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Old Republic International. Assured Guaranty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Old Republic International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Assured Guaranty had 6 more articles in the media than Old Republic International. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Assured Guaranty and 10 mentions for Old Republic International. Old Republic International's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Assured Guaranty's score of 0.47 indicating that Old Republic International is being referred to more favorably in the media.
70.9% of Old Republic International shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.2% of Assured Guaranty shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Old Republic International shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.1% of Assured Guaranty shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Assured Guaranty received 157 more outperform votes than Old Republic International when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.81% of users gave Assured Guaranty an outperform vote while only 62.57% of users gave Old Republic International an outperform vote.
Old Republic International has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Assured Guaranty has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Assured Guaranty has a net margin of 53.82% compared to Old Republic International's net margin of 9.52%. Old Republic International's return on equity of 12.15% beat Assured Guaranty's return on equity.
Old Republic International pays an annual dividend of $1.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Assured Guaranty pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Old Republic International pays out 41.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Assured Guaranty pays out 10.0% 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.
Summary
Assured Guaranty beats Old Republic International on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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