EG vs. CINF, WRB, L, CNA, RNR, AFG, KNSL, HIG, RLI, and SIGI
Should you be buying Everest Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Everest Group include Cincinnati Financial (CINF), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Loews (L), CNA Financial (CNA), RenaissanceRe (RNR), American Financial Group (AFG), Kinsale Capital Group (KNSL), The Hartford Financial Services Group (HIG), RLI (RLI), and Selective Insurance Group (SIGI). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Everest Group (NYSE:EG) and Cincinnati Financial (NASDAQ:CINF) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Everest Group currently has a consensus price target of $432.11, suggesting a potential upside of 18.48%. Cincinnati Financial has a consensus price target of $123.57, suggesting a potential upside of 11.45%. Given Everest Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Everest Group is more favorable than Cincinnati Financial.
Everest Group pays an annual dividend of $7.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Cincinnati Financial pays an annual dividend of $3.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Everest Group pays out 11.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cincinnati Financial pays out 21.6% 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.
92.6% of Everest Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.2% of Cincinnati Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Everest Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Cincinnati Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Cincinnati Financial received 244 more outperform votes than Everest Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.11% of users gave Everest Group an outperform vote while only 50.60% of users gave Cincinnati Financial an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Cincinnati Financial had 17 more articles in the media than Everest Group. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Cincinnati Financial and 10 mentions for Everest Group. Everest Group's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Cincinnati Financial's score of 0.91 indicating that Everest Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Cincinnati Financial has a net margin of 22.16% compared to Everest Group's net margin of 17.26%. Everest Group's return on equity of 25.05% beat Cincinnati Financial's return on equity.
Everest Group has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cincinnati Financial has a beta of 0.63, meaning that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Everest Group has higher revenue and earnings than Cincinnati Financial. Everest Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cincinnati Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Everest Group beats Cincinnati Financial on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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