Compare Stocks: NMIH, ACT, CNO, and ESNT

Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
ACT Enact	$45.26 +2.5%	$48.42	$34.64 ▼ $50.56	$6.32B	0.51	437,345 shs	427,337 shs
CNO CNO Financial Group	$53.92 +1.6%	$54.63	$38.22 ▼ $57.59	$4.98B	0.8	1.07 million shs	699,339 shs
ESNT Essent Group	$60.18 +2.2%	$67.12	$55.34 ▼ $70.37	$5.41B	0.76	852,000 shs	863,878 shs
NMIH NMI	$38.83 +2.0%	$43.73	$34.84 ▼ $46.74	$2.92B	0.56	724,386 shs	1.02 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
ACT Enact	0.00%	-3.64%	-8.58%	-0.18%	+19.55%
CNO CNO Financial Group	0.00%	-0.09%	-4.92%	+2.99%	+37.61%
ESNT Essent Group	0.00%	-5.71%	-13.64%	-7.13%	-3.18%
NMIH NMI	0.00%	-5.82%	-14.45%	-5.38%	+3.49%

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
ACT Enact	$45.26 +2.5%	$48.42	$34.64 ▼ $50.56	$6.32B	0.51	437,345 shs	427,337 shs
CNO CNO Financial Group	$53.92 +1.6%	$54.63	$38.22 ▼ $57.59	$4.98B	0.8	1.07 million shs	699,339 shs
ESNT Essent Group	$60.18 +2.2%	$67.12	$55.34 ▼ $70.37	$5.41B	0.76	852,000 shs	863,878 shs
NMIH NMI	$38.83 +2.0%	$43.73	$34.84 ▼ $46.74	$2.92B	0.56	724,386 shs	1.02 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
ACT Enact	0.00%	-3.64%	-8.58%	-0.18%	+19.55%
CNO CNO Financial Group	0.00%	-0.09%	-4.92%	+2.99%	+37.61%
ESNT Essent Group	0.00%	-5.71%	-13.64%	-7.13%	-3.18%
NMIH NMI	0.00%	-5.82%	-14.45%	-5.38%	+3.49%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
ACT Enact	0.00	N/A	N/A	N/A
CNO CNO Financial Group	2.40	Hold	$56.00	3.86% Upside
ESNT Essent Group	2.33	Hold	$71.86	19.40% Upside
NMIH NMI	2.71	Moderate Buy	$49.14	26.56% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest NMIH, ACT, CNO, and ESNT Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
9/22/2026	ACT Enact	BTIG Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Neutral
9/22/2026	ESNT Essent Group	BTIG Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Hold
9/22/2026	NMIH NMI	BTIG Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Buy	$54.00
9/21/2026	ACT Enact	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy (A-)
9/18/2026	ESNT Essent Group	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy (B)
9/9/2026	NMIH NMI	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy (B)
8/26/2026	CNO CNO Financial Group	Capital One Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Set Price Target		$70.00
8/11/2026	CNO CNO Financial Group	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Buy (B) ➝ Buy (B+)
8/10/2026	ESNT Essent Group	Roth Capital Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy	$65.00 ➝ $80.00
8/10/2026	ACT Enact	Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Market Perform	$44.00 ➝ $49.00
8/10/2026	ESNT Essent Group	Royal Bank Of Canada Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Sector Perform	$68.00 ➝ $75.00

(Data available from 10/4/2023 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
ACT Enact	$1.24B	5.11	$4.74 per share	9.55	$37.09 per share	1.22
CNO CNO Financial Group	$4.49B	1.11	$6.83 per share	7.90	$27.67 per share	1.95
ESNT Essent Group	$1.26B	4.29	$7.34 per share	8.20	$59.55 per share	1.01
NMIH NMI	$706.44M	4.13	$5.18 per share	7.50	$33.72 per share	1.15

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
ACT Enact	$674.24M	$4.75	9.53	8.98	1.12	54.51%	12.98%	10.04%	11/4/2026 (Estimated)
CNO CNO Financial Group	$229.30M	$2.91	18.53	10.76	N/A	6.02%	18.76%	1.24%	11/2/2026 (Estimated)
ESNT Essent Group	$689.97M	$7.17	8.39	7.65	1.51	51.45%	11.91%	9.09%	11/6/2026 (Estimated)
NMIH NMI	$388.93M	$5.08	7.64	7.07	1.05	54.10%	15.13%	10.21%	11/3/2026 (Estimated)

Latest NMIH, ACT, CNO, and ESNT Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
8/7/2026	Q2 2026	ESNT Essent Group	$1.76	$2.08	+$0.32	$2.08	$321.62 million	$362.69 million
8/5/2026	Q2 2026	ACT Enact	$1.19	$1.26	+$0.07	$1.25	$315.81 million	$317.31 million
7/30/2026	Q2 2026	CNO CNO Financial Group	$0.9720	$1.26	+$0.2880	$1.33	$999.45 million	$1.29 billion
7/30/2026	Q2 2026	NMIH NMI	$1.28	$1.38	+$0.10	$1.38	$156.26 million	$187.89 million

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	5-Year Annualized Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
ACT Enact	$0.96	2.12%	N/A	20.21%	3 Years
CNO CNO Financial Group	$0.72	1.34%	+7.35%	24.74%	2 Years
ESNT Essent Group	$1.40	2.33%	+14.14%	19.53%	6 Years
NMIH NMI	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Latest NMIH, ACT, CNO, and ESNT Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
8/5/2026	CNO CNO Financial Group	quarterly	$0.18	1.31%	9/10/2026	9/10/2026	9/24/2026
8/5/2026	ACT Enact	quarterly	$0.24	1.95%	8/20/2026	8/20/2026	9/17/2026
8/7/2026	ESNT Essent Group	quarterly	$0.35	2.07%	8/31/2026	8/31/2026	9/10/2026

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
ACT Enact	0.14	0.92	0.92
CNO CNO Financial Group	1.65	0.17	0.17
ESNT Essent Group	0.09	1.18	1.18
NMIH NMI	0.15	0.65	0.65

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
ACT Enact	18.03%
CNO CNO Financial Group	95.43%
ESNT Essent Group	93.00%
NMIH NMI	94.12%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
ACT Enact	0.59%
CNO CNO Financial Group	3.44%
ESNT Essent Group	3.60%
NMIH NMI	2.44%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
ACT Enact	500	139.60 million	138.78 million	Not Optionable
CNO CNO Financial Group	3,300	92.52 million	89.34 million	Optionable
ESNT Essent Group	518	89.88 million	86.64 million	Optionable
NMIH NMI	225	75.22 million	73.38 million	Optionable

NMIH, ACT, CNO, and ESNT Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

Are Investors Undervaluing NMI (NMIH) Right Now?

October 1 at 10:41 AM | zacks.com

NMI Holdings retreats 8%, extending slide amid sector weakness

October 1 at 10:02 AM | seekingalpha.com

NMI Holdings Drops 5.8% Amid Sector-Wide Selling

September 30, 2026 | news.alphastreet.comN

NMI (NASDAQ:NMIH) Shares Down 6% - Should You Sell?

September 30, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Here's Why NMI Holdings (NMIH) is a Strong Value Stock

September 30, 2026 | zacks.com

Head to Head Survey: NMI (NASDAQ:NMIH) & PennyMac Financial Services (NYSE:PFSI)

September 28, 2026 | defenseworld.netD

NMI (NASDAQ:NMIH) vs. PennyMac Financial Services (NYSE:PFSI) Critical Comparison

September 28, 2026 | americanbankingnews.com

NMI Holdings Inc (NMIH)

September 27, 2026 | za.investing.com

After Plunging 7.2% in 4 Weeks, Here's Why the Trend Might Reverse for NMI Holdings (NMIH)

September 25, 2026 | zacks.com

NMI Holdings Near 52-Week High: Time to Buy, Sell or Hold the Stock?

September 24, 2026 | zacks.com

NMI Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:NMIH) Receives $48.33 Average Price Target from Analysts

September 24, 2026 | americanbankingnews.com

BTIG avvia copertura su NMI Holdings con rating buy per le prospettive di crescita

September 23, 2026 | it.investing.com

Die NMI Holdings-Aktie erhält ein neues Kursziel

September 23, 2026 | ad-hoc-news.deA

Reviewing NMI (NASDAQ:NMIH) & Tron (NASDAQ:TRON)

September 23, 2026 | americanbankingnews.com

BTIG Research Begins Coverage on NMI (NASDAQ:NMIH)

September 22, 2026 | marketbeat.com

NMI Holdings stock draws support from earnings beat

September 20, 2026 | ad-hoc-news.deA

Engineers Gate Manager LP Sells 27,821 Shares of NMI Holdings Inc $NMIH

September 20, 2026 | marketbeat.com

NMI Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:NMIH) Given Consensus Rating of "Moderate Buy" by Analysts

September 19, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Is NMI Holdings (NMIH) Undervalued As Sector Selling Hits Mortgage Insurers?

September 17, 2026 | finance.yahoo.com

Zacks Research Has Pessimistic Outlook of NMI Q1 Earnings

September 16, 2026 | marketbeat.com

NMI Holdings Drops 5.4% Amid Sector-Wide Selling

September 15, 2026 | news.alphastreet.comN

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NMIH, ACT, CNO, and ESNT Company Descriptions

Enact NASDAQ:ACT

$45.26 +1.11 (+2.51%)

Closing price 10/2/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$45.24 -0.02 (-0.03%)

As of 10/2/2026 07:30 PM Eastern

Enact Holdings, Inc. operates as a private mortgage insurance company in the United States. It engages in writing and assuming residential mortgage guaranty insurance. The company also offers private mortgage insurance products primarily insuring prime-based, individually underwritten residential mortgage loans; contract underwriting services for mortgage lenders; and mortgage-related reinsurance products. It primarily serves originators of residential mortgage loans. The company was formerly known as Genworth Mortgage Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Enact Holdings, Inc. in May 2021. Enact Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. Enact Holdings, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Genworth Holdings Inc.

CNO Financial Group NYSE:CNO

$53.92 +0.84 (+1.58%)

Closing price 10/2/2026 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$53.96 +0.04 (+0.08%)

As of 10/2/2026 07:30 PM Eastern

CNO Financial Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, develops, markets, and administers health insurance, annuity, individual life insurance, insurance products, and financial services for senior and middle-income markets in the United States. It offers Medicare supplement, supplemental health, and long-term care insurance policies; life insurance; and annuities, as well as Medicare advantage plans to individuals through phone, online, mail, and face-to-face. The company also focuses on sale of voluntary benefit life and health insurance products for businesses, associations, and other membership groups by interacting with customers at their place of employment. In addition, it provides fixed indexed annuities; fixed interest annuities, including fixed rate single and flexible premium deferred annuities; single premium immediate annuities; supplemental health products, such as specified disease, accident, and hospital indemnity products; and long-term care plans primarily to retirees and older self-employed individuals in the middle-income market. Further, the company offers universal life and other interest-sensitive life products; and traditional life policies that include whole life, graded benefit life, term life, and single premium whole life products, as well as graded benefit life insurance products. It markets its products under the Bankers Life, Washington National, and Colonial Penn brand names. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Carmel, Indiana.

Essent Group NYSE:ESNT

$60.18 +1.32 (+2.25%)

Closing price 10/2/2026 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$60.04 -0.14 (-0.24%)

As of 10/2/2026 07:30 PM Eastern

Essent Group Ltd., through its subsidiaries, provides private mortgage insurance and reinsurance for mortgages secured by residential properties located in the United States. Its mortgage insurance products include primary, pool, and master policy. The company also provides information technology maintenance and development services; customer support-related services; underwriting consulting; and contract underwriting services, as well as risk management products and title insurance and settlement services. It serves the originators of residential mortgage loans, such as regulated depository institutions, mortgage banks, credit unions, and other lenders. Essent Group Ltd. was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda.

NMI NASDAQ:NMIH

$38.83 +0.75 (+1.97%)

Closing price 10/2/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$38.83 0.00 (0.00%)

As of 10/2/2026 07:30 PM Eastern

NMI Holdings, Inc. provides private mortgage guaranty insurance services in the United States. The company offers mortgage insurance services, such as primary and pool insurance; and outsourced loan review services to mortgage loan originators. It serves national and regional mortgage banks, money center banks, credit unions, community banks, builder-owned mortgage lenders, internet-sourced lenders, and other non-bank lenders. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Emeryville, California.

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