AXS vs. ERIE, WRB, MKL, CINF, FNF, CNA, ORI, RLI, FAF, and SIGI
Should you be buying AXIS Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AXIS Capital include Erie Indemnity (ERIE), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Markel Group (MKL), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), Fidelity National Financial (FNF), CNA Financial (CNA), Old Republic International (ORI), RLI (RLI), First American Financial (FAF), and Selective Insurance Group (SIGI). These companies are all part of the "property & casualty insurance" industry.
AXIS Capital (NYSE:AXS) and Erie Indemnity (NASDAQ:ERIE) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Erie Indemnity has a net margin of 14.26% compared to AXIS Capital's net margin of 10.34%. Erie Indemnity's return on equity of 29.60% beat AXIS Capital's return on equity.
AXIS Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Erie Indemnity pays an annual dividend of $5.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. AXIS Capital pays out 26.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Erie Indemnity pays out 55.1% 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. AXIS Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Erie Indemnity has lower revenue, but higher earnings than AXIS Capital. AXIS Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Erie Indemnity, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
93.4% of AXIS Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.7% of Erie Indemnity shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of AXIS Capital shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 45.8% of Erie Indemnity shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Erie Indemnity had 2 more articles in the media than AXIS Capital. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Erie Indemnity and 10 mentions for AXIS Capital. AXIS Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Erie Indemnity's score of 0.52 indicating that AXIS Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AXIS Capital received 123 more outperform votes than Erie Indemnity when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.59% of users gave Erie Indemnity an outperform vote while only 54.49% of users gave AXIS Capital an outperform vote.
AXIS Capital currently has a consensus target price of $71.83, indicating a potential downside of 2.51%. Given AXIS Capital's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe AXIS Capital is more favorable than Erie Indemnity.
AXIS Capital has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Erie Indemnity has a beta of 0.42, suggesting that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Erie Indemnity beats AXIS Capital on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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