CNNE vs. HTLF, SKWD, EFSC, HMN, RC, GTY, CUBI, CHCO, XHR, and STEW
Should you be buying Cannae stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cannae include Heartland Financial USA (HTLF), Skyward Specialty Insurance Group (SKWD), Enterprise Financial Services (EFSC), Horace Mann Educators (HMN), Ready Capital (RC), Getty Realty (GTY), Customers Bancorp (CUBI), City (CHCO), Xenia Hotels & Resorts (XHR), and SRH Total Return Fund (STEW). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Heartland Financial USA (NASDAQ:HTLF) and Cannae (NYSE:CNNE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Heartland Financial USA had 5 more articles in the media than Cannae. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Heartland Financial USA and 3 mentions for Cannae. Heartland Financial USA's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Cannae's score of 0.65 indicating that Cannae is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Heartland Financial USA received 267 more outperform votes than Cannae when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.50% of users gave Cannae an outperform vote while only 59.14% of users gave Heartland Financial USA an outperform vote.
Heartland Financial USA has higher revenue and earnings than Cannae. Cannae is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Heartland Financial USA, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Heartland Financial USA has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cannae has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
71.6% of Heartland Financial USA shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.1% of Cannae shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Heartland Financial USA shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of Cannae shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Heartland Financial USA has a net margin of 8.57% compared to Heartland Financial USA's net margin of -53.86%. Cannae's return on equity of 11.56% beat Heartland Financial USA's return on equity.
Heartland Financial USA presently has a consensus price target of $39.80, indicating a potential upside of 12.24%. Cannae has a consensus price target of $27.67, indicating a potential upside of 38.13%. Given Heartland Financial USA's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Cannae is more favorable than Heartland Financial USA.
Summary
Heartland Financial USA beats Cannae on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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