HALL vs. AIZ, WRB, SIGIP, KINS, NNAGU, NNAGW, ASCAU, ASCAW, ASCBU, and ASCBW
Should you be buying Hallmark Financial Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hallmark Financial Services include Assurant (AIZ), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Selective Insurance Group (SIGIP), Kingstone Companies (KINS), 99 Acquisition Group (NNAGU), 99 Acquisition Group (NNAGW), A SPAC I Acquisition (ASCAU), A SPAC I Acquisition (ASCAW), A SPAC II Acquisition (ASCBU), and A SPAC II Acquisition (ASCBW).
Assurant (NYSE:AIZ) and Hallmark Financial Services (NASDAQ:HALL) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership and earnings.
92.7% of Assurant shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.6% of Hallmark Financial Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Assurant shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 28.1% of Hallmark Financial Services shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Assurant has a net margin of 5.77% compared to Assurant's net margin of -48.14%. Hallmark Financial Services' return on equity of 18.36% beat Assurant's return on equity.
Assurant has higher revenue and earnings than Hallmark Financial Services. Hallmark Financial Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Assurant, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Assurant has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hallmark Financial Services has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Assurant presently has a consensus price target of $192.20, indicating a potential upside of 11.97%. Given Hallmark Financial Services' higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Assurant is more favorable than Hallmark Financial Services.
In the previous week, Assurant had 1 more articles in the media than Hallmark Financial Services. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Assurant and 4 mentions for Hallmark Financial Services. Hallmark Financial Services' average media sentiment score of 1.71 beat Assurant's score of 0.02 indicating that Assurant is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Assurant received 79 more outperform votes than Hallmark Financial Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.69% of users gave Assurant an outperform vote while only 44.59% of users gave Hallmark Financial Services an outperform vote.
Summary
Assurant beats Hallmark Financial Services on 15 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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