RLI vs. SIGI, AXS, THG, WTM, MCY, CNA, CINF, WRB, KNSL, and ESGR
Should you be buying RLI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RLI include Selective Insurance Group (SIGI), AXIS Capital (AXS), The Hanover Insurance Group (THG), White Mountains Insurance Group (WTM), Mercury General (MCY), CNA Financial (CNA), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Kinsale Capital Group (KNSL), and Enstar Group (ESGR). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
RLI (NYSE:RLI) and Selective Insurance Group (NASDAQ:SIGI) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.
RLI currently has a consensus target price of $163.25, suggesting a potential upside of 15.14%. Selective Insurance Group has a consensus target price of $105.17, suggesting a potential upside of 2.82%. Given RLI's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe RLI is more favorable than Selective Insurance Group.
77.9% of RLI shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.9% of Selective Insurance Group shares are held by institutional investors. 5.1% of RLI shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Selective Insurance Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
RLI has a beta of 0.37, meaning that its stock price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Selective Insurance Group has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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 has a net margin of 20.96% compared to Selective Insurance Group's net margin of 8.57%. RLI's return on equity of 17.24% beat Selective Insurance Group's return on equity.
RLI pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Selective Insurance Group pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. 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.
In the previous week, RLI had 9 more articles in the media than Selective Insurance Group. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for RLI and 4 mentions for Selective Insurance Group. RLI's average media sentiment score of 0.35 beat Selective Insurance Group's score of -0.28 indicating that RLI is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
Summary
RLI beats Selective Insurance Group on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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