PLMR vs. SPNT, FIHL, HG, SKWD, HMN, MAX, SAFT, LMND, HCI, and EIG
Should you be buying Palomar stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Palomar include SiriusPoint (SPNT), Fidelis Insurance (FIHL), Hamilton Insurance Group (HG), Skyward Specialty Insurance Group (SKWD), Horace Mann Educators (HMN), MediaAlpha (MAX), Safety Insurance Group (SAFT), Lemonade (LMND), HCI Group (HCI), and Employers (EIG).
SiriusPoint (NYSE:SPNT) and Palomar (NASDAQ:PLMR) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment and profitability.
Palomar has a net margin of 21.07% compared to Palomar's net margin of 13.28%. SiriusPoint's return on equity of 19.35% beat Palomar's return on equity.
SiriusPoint has higher revenue and earnings than Palomar. SiriusPoint is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Palomar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SiriusPoint has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Palomar has a beta of 0.21, suggesting that its stock price is 79% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Palomar received 71 more outperform votes than SiriusPoint when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.60% of users gave Palomar an outperform vote while only 20.00% of users gave SiriusPoint an outperform vote.
Palomar has a consensus target price of $87.50, indicating a potential upside of 10.06%. Given SiriusPoint's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Palomar is more favorable than SiriusPoint.
In the previous week, Palomar had 6 more articles in the media than SiriusPoint. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Palomar and 3 mentions for SiriusPoint. Palomar's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat SiriusPoint's score of 0.94 indicating that SiriusPoint is being referred to more favorably in the media.
52.8% of SiriusPoint shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.3% of Palomar shares are owned by institutional investors. 50.9% of SiriusPoint shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Palomar shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Palomar beats SiriusPoint on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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