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Helios Underwriting (HUW) Competitors

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GBX 218 -5.00 (-2.24%)
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HUW vs. PGH, FBH, ADM, RSA, HSX, DLG, HSTG, GCP, SYNC, and BRGE

Should you be buying Helios Underwriting stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Helios Underwriting include Personal Group (PGH), FBD (FBH), Admiral Group (ADM), RSA Insurance Group (RSA), Hiscox (HSX), Direct Line Insurance Group (DLG), Hastings Group Holdings plc (HSTG.L) (HSTG), GCP Infrastructure Investments (GCP), Syncona (SYNC), and BlackRock Greater Europe (BRGE).

Helios Underwriting vs. Its Competitors

Helios Underwriting (LON:HUW) and Personal Group (LON:PGH) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.

Helios Underwriting presently has a consensus price target of GBX 239, suggesting a potential upside of 9.63%. Personal Group has a consensus price target of GBX 416, suggesting a potential upside of 26.25%. Given Personal Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Personal Group is more favorable than Helios Underwriting.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Helios Underwriting
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Personal Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Helios Underwriting has a beta of 0.14, meaning that its share price is 86% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Personal Group has a beta of 0.46, meaning that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.

14.9% of Helios Underwriting shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.3% of Personal Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 35.1% of Helios Underwriting shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 44.8% of Personal Group shares are owned 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.

Helios Underwriting pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Personal Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Helios Underwriting pays out 26.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Personal Group pays out 68.8% 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.

Helios Underwriting has higher revenue and earnings than Personal Group. Helios Underwriting is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Personal Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Helios Underwriting£254.15M0.61£17.25M£0.23960.35
Personal Group£46.08M2.23£4.55M£0.241,372.92

Personal Group has a net margin of 13.49% compared to Helios Underwriting's net margin of 6.96%. Personal Group's return on equity of 14.40% beat Helios Underwriting's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Helios Underwriting6.96% 12.61% 1.82%
Personal Group 13.49%14.40%7.99%

In the previous week, Helios Underwriting's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Personal Group'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Helios Underwriting Neutral
Personal Group Neutral

Summary

Personal Group beats Helios Underwriting on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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HUW vs. The Competition

MetricHelios UnderwritingInsurance IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£155.95M£16.22B£6.34B£2.60B
Dividend Yield2.75%4.48%4.30%5.28%
P/E Ratio960.35187.301,331.854,388.05
Price / Sales0.6192.001,365.23100,187.79
Price / Cash0.545.14127.5927.90
Price / Book1.143.033.538.71
Net Income£17.25M£914.48M£1.22B£5.89B
7 Day Performance-0.22%-0.47%-0.11%-0.06%
1 Month Performance6.86%-1.56%2.51%2.40%
1 Year Performance17.52%25.24%40.24%145.49%

Helios Underwriting Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HUW
Helios Underwriting
N/AGBX 218
-2.2%
GBX 239
+9.6%
+17.0%£155.95M£254.15M960.353
PGH
Personal Group
N/AGBX 334.11
+0.0%
GBX 416
+24.5%
+73.8%£104.24M£43.81M1,662.24259
FBH
FBD
N/AN/AN/AN/A£5.26M£422.78M6.82950
ADM
Admiral Group
1.9908 of 5 stars
GBX 3,332
-1.3%
GBX 2,752
-17.4%
N/A£9.96B£5.23B1,234.0742,000News Coverage
RSA
RSA Insurance Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£7.10B£6.55B22.2111,840
HSX
Hiscox
1.5289 of 5 stars
GBX 1,373
-1.0%
GBX 1,480
+7.8%
+27.0%£4.59B£3.84B805.283,000
DLG
Direct Line Insurance Group
N/AGBX 305
flat
N/A+68.4%£3.96B£3.00B16.1110,131High Trading Volume
HSTG
Hastings Group Holdings plc (HSTG.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.65B£763.70M19.053,372High Trading Volume
GCP
GCP Infrastructure Investments
1.8357 of 5 stars
GBX 72.40
+0.6%
GBX 90
+24.3%
-3.4%£606.85M£13.04M6,295.651,950News Coverage
SYNC
Syncona
N/AGBX 99
-0.6%
N/A-10.1%£601.78M-£68.31M-440.391,208
BRGE
BlackRock Greater Europe
N/AGBX 604
+1.2%
N/A+3.6%£574.36M-£10.55M-4,582.70N/ANews Coverage

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This page (LON:HUW) was last updated on 10/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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