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Skyward Specialty Insurance Group (SKWD) Competitors

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$51.98 +0.18 (+0.35%)
Closing price 07/25/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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SKWD vs. VOYA, JXN, ESNT, ACT, BWIN, FG, GSHD, PLMR, HGTY, and OSCR

Should you be buying Skyward Specialty Insurance Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Skyward Specialty Insurance Group include Voya Financial (VOYA), Jackson Financial (JXN), Essent Group (ESNT), Enact (ACT), Baldwin Insurance Group (BWIN), F&G Annuities & Life (FG), Goosehead Insurance (GSHD), Palomar (PLMR), Hagerty (HGTY), and Oscar Health (OSCR). These companies are all part of the "insurance" industry.

Skyward Specialty Insurance Group vs. Its Competitors

Skyward Specialty Insurance Group (NASDAQ:SKWD) and Voya Financial (NYSE:VOYA) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.

Skyward Specialty Insurance Group has a net margin of 10.23% compared to Voya Financial's net margin of 7.18%. Skyward Specialty Insurance Group's return on equity of 16.80% beat Voya Financial's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Skyward Specialty Insurance Group10.23% 16.80% 3.60%
Voya Financial 7.18%14.05%0.51%

Skyward Specialty Insurance Group currently has a consensus target price of $61.75, indicating a potential upside of 18.80%. Voya Financial has a consensus target price of $83.50, indicating a potential upside of 16.24%. Given Skyward Specialty Insurance Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Skyward Specialty Insurance Group is more favorable than Voya Financial.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Skyward Specialty Insurance Group
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.82
Voya Financial
1 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.45

In the previous week, Skyward Specialty Insurance Group had 4 more articles in the media than Voya Financial. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Skyward Specialty Insurance Group and 5 mentions for Voya Financial. Voya Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.63 beat Skyward Specialty Insurance Group's score of 0.99 indicating that Voya Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Skyward Specialty Insurance Group
5 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Voya Financial
5 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

Skyward Specialty Insurance Group has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Voya Financial has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.

94.8% of Skyward Specialty Insurance Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.1% of Voya Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 8.0% of Skyward Specialty Insurance Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Voya Financial shares are held by company 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.

Voya Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Skyward Specialty Insurance Group. Voya Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Skyward Specialty Insurance Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Skyward Specialty Insurance Group$1.15B1.83$118.83M$3.0017.33
Voya Financial$8.05B0.86$667M$5.3013.55

Summary

Skyward Specialty Insurance Group beats Voya Financial on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding SKWD and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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SKWD vs. The Competition

MetricSkyward Specialty Insurance GroupINS IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$2.10B$56.82B$12.26B$9.50B
Dividend YieldN/A2.02%5.54%4.00%
P/E Ratio16.1917.0219.0620.07
Price / Sales1.832.6726.1198.54
Price / Cash16.0328.8121.6358.56
Price / Book2.632.972.205.88
Net Income$118.83M$4.66B$998.02M$258.89M
7 Day Performance-3.95%0.71%0.58%3.70%
1 Month Performance-8.50%-0.40%3.45%11.71%
1 Year Performance35.15%20.93%536.27%17.98%

Skyward Specialty Insurance Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SKWD
Skyward Specialty Insurance Group
3.9347 of 5 stars
$51.98
+0.3%
$61.75
+18.8%
+39.1%$2.10B$1.15B16.19400News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
VOYA
Voya Financial
4.9917 of 5 stars
$71.03
-1.9%
$84.18
+18.5%
-0.7%$6.97B$8.05B13.4010,000Positive News
JXN
Jackson Financial
2.4067 of 5 stars
$87.31
-0.2%
$96.40
+10.4%
+3.4%$6.25B$3.27B84.773,970Positive News
ESNT
Essent Group
4.8474 of 5 stars
$55.98
+0.5%
$63.71
+13.8%
-8.7%$5.65B$1.24B8.20350Positive News
ACT
Enact
N/A$34.97
+0.3%
$35.00
+0.1%
+3.0%$5.23B$1.20B7.88500Upcoming Earnings
BWIN
Baldwin Insurance Group
2.2726 of 5 stars
$40.58
-3.0%
$45.17
+11.3%
-1.8%$4.96B$1.39B-78.044,116News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Revision
FG
F&G Annuities & Life
4.4515 of 5 stars
$30.73
-1.0%
$43.33
+41.0%
-26.1%$4.18B$5.74B8.151,338News Coverage
GSHD
Goosehead Insurance
3.76 of 5 stars
$101.87
-0.2%
$115.40
+13.3%
+3.2%$3.83B$314.51M85.611,580Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
PLMR
Palomar
3.9539 of 5 stars
$139.86
+0.2%
$174.17
+24.5%
+49.4%$3.73B$553.86M27.92150Positive News
Insider Trade
HGTY
Hagerty
1.1337 of 5 stars
$10.12
+0.0%
$10.50
+3.8%
-1.0%$3.46B$1.20B50.581,744Trending News
Insider Trade
OSCR
Oscar Health
2.3353 of 5 stars
$13.59
+1.3%
$12.92
-5.0%
-5.7%$3.42B$9.18B48.552,400Trending News
Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume

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This page (NASDAQ:SKWD) was last updated on 7/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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