THG vs. WTM, AXS, SIGI, MCY, RLI, SAFT, CNA, CINF, ESGR, and KMPR
Should you be buying The Hanover Insurance Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of The Hanover Insurance Group include White Mountains Insurance Group (WTM), AXIS Capital (AXS), Selective Insurance Group (SIGI), Mercury General (MCY), RLI (RLI), Safety Insurance Group (SAFT), CNA Financial (CNA), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), Enstar Group (ESGR), and Kemper (KMPR). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
The Hanover Insurance Group (NYSE:THG) and White Mountains Insurance Group (NYSE:WTM) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, profitability and risk.
The Hanover Insurance Group currently has a consensus target price of $140.83, indicating a potential upside of 8.68%. Given The Hanover Insurance Group's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe The Hanover Insurance Group is more favorable than White Mountains Insurance Group.
White Mountains Insurance Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than The Hanover Insurance Group. White Mountains Insurance Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The Hanover Insurance Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
The Hanover Insurance Group received 134 more outperform votes than White Mountains Insurance Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.97% of users gave The Hanover Insurance Group an outperform vote while only 59.42% of users gave White Mountains Insurance Group an outperform vote.
86.6% of The Hanover Insurance Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.7% of White Mountains Insurance Group shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of The Hanover Insurance Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of White Mountains Insurance Group 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.
The Hanover Insurance Group pays an annual dividend of $3.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. White Mountains Insurance Group pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. The Hanover Insurance Group pays out 361.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. White Mountains Insurance Group pays out 0.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
White Mountains Insurance Group has a net margin of 23.50% compared to The Hanover Insurance Group's net margin of 0.59%. White Mountains Insurance Group's return on equity of 4.08% beat The Hanover Insurance Group's return on equity.
The Hanover Insurance Group has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, White Mountains Insurance Group has a beta of 0.42, indicating that its stock price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, The Hanover Insurance Group had 6 more articles in the media than White Mountains Insurance Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for The Hanover Insurance Group and 1 mentions for White Mountains Insurance Group. The Hanover Insurance Group's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat White Mountains Insurance Group's score of 0.88 indicating that The Hanover Insurance Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
The Hanover Insurance Group beats White Mountains Insurance Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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