HCI vs. MCY, HTH, STC, SAFT, EIG, AMSF, PRA, UVE, UFCS, and DGICA
Should you be buying HCI Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HCI Group include Mercury General (MCY), Hilltop (HTH), Stewart Information Services (STC), Safety Insurance Group (SAFT), Employers (EIG), AMERISAFE (AMSF), ProAssurance (PRA), Universal Insurance (UVE), United Fire Group (UFCS), and Donegal Group (DGICA). These companies are all part of the "property & casualty insurance" industry.
Mercury General (NYSE:MCY) and HCI Group (NYSE:HCI) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends and risk.
42.4% of Mercury General shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.0% of HCI Group shares are held by institutional investors. 35.5% of Mercury General shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 25.3% of HCI Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
HCI Group has a consensus target price of $127.75, indicating a potential upside of 40.15%. Given Mercury General's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe HCI Group is more favorable than Mercury General.
Mercury General has higher revenue and earnings than HCI Group. HCI Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mercury General, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Mercury General and Mercury General both had 5 articles in the media. HCI Group's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Mercury General's score of 0.12 indicating that Mercury General is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Mercury General received 2 more outperform votes than HCI Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.48% of users gave HCI Group an outperform vote while only 50.73% of users gave Mercury General an outperform vote.
Mercury General pays an annual dividend of $1.27 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. HCI Group pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Mercury General pays out 32.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HCI Group pays out 16.3% 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.
HCI Group has a net margin of 17.72% compared to HCI Group's net margin of 4.48%. Mercury General's return on equity of 40.30% beat HCI Group's return on equity.
Mercury General has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HCI Group has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
HCI Group beats Mercury General on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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