SIGI vs. ESGR, WTM, MCY, MKL, WRB, CINF, FNF, CNA, ORI, and RLI
Should you be buying Selective Insurance Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Selective Insurance Group include Enstar Group (ESGR), White Mountains Insurance Group (WTM), Mercury General (MCY), Markel Group (MKL), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), Fidelity National Financial (FNF), CNA Financial (CNA), Old Republic International (ORI), and RLI (RLI).
Selective Insurance Group (NASDAQ:SIGI) and Enstar Group (NASDAQ:ESGR) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
82.9% of Selective Insurance Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.0% of Enstar Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Selective Insurance Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of Enstar Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Enstar Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Selective Insurance Group. Enstar Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Selective Insurance Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Selective Insurance Group had 35 more articles in the media than Enstar Group. MarketBeat recorded 39 mentions for Selective Insurance Group and 4 mentions for Enstar Group. Enstar Group's average media sentiment score of 1.66 beat Selective Insurance Group's score of 0.46 indicating that Enstar Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Selective Insurance Group received 64 more outperform votes than Enstar Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.85% of users gave Enstar Group an outperform vote while only 60.31% of users gave Selective Insurance Group an outperform vote.
Selective Insurance Group has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enstar Group has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Selective Insurance Group presently has a consensus target price of $98.67, indicating a potential upside of 8.28%. Given Selective Insurance Group's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Selective Insurance Group is more favorable than Enstar Group.
Enstar Group has a net margin of 77.65% compared to Selective Insurance Group's net margin of 5.12%. Enstar Group's return on equity of 18.33% beat Selective Insurance Group's return on equity.
Summary
Enstar Group beats Selective Insurance Group on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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