FIHL vs. PLMR, SPNT, MCY, HG, HMN, SKWD, LMND, SAFT, HCI, and EIG
Should you be buying Fidelis Insurance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fidelis Insurance include Palomar (PLMR), SiriusPoint (SPNT), Mercury General (MCY), Hamilton Insurance Group (HG), Horace Mann Educators (HMN), Skyward Specialty Insurance Group (SKWD), Lemonade (LMND), Safety Insurance Group (SAFT), HCI Group (HCI), and Employers (EIG). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Palomar (NASDAQ:PLMR) and Fidelis Insurance (NYSE:FIHL) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, earnings, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
Fidelis Insurance has a net margin of 59.30% compared to Fidelis Insurance's net margin of 21.07%. Palomar's return on equity of 20.23% beat Fidelis Insurance's return on equity.
90.3% of Palomar shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.0% of Fidelis Insurance shares are held by institutional investors. 4.3% of Palomar shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Palomar had 2 more articles in the media than Fidelis Insurance. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Palomar and 5 mentions for Fidelis Insurance. Fidelis Insurance's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Palomar's score of -0.11 indicating that Palomar is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Palomar presently has a consensus price target of $87.50, indicating a potential upside of 10.06%. Fidelis Insurance has a consensus price target of $18.44, indicating a potential downside of 5.45%. Given Fidelis Insurance's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Palomar is more favorable than Fidelis Insurance.
Fidelis Insurance has higher revenue and earnings than Palomar. Fidelis Insurance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Palomar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Palomar received 60 more outperform votes than Fidelis Insurance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.60% of users gave Palomar an outperform vote while only 54.55% of users gave Fidelis Insurance an outperform vote.
Summary
Palomar beats Fidelis Insurance on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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