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KMPR vs. AFG, AIZ, GNW, HMN, AIG, HIG, L, AEG, FNF, and EG

Should you be buying Kemper stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kemper include American Financial Group (AFG), Assurant (AIZ), Genworth Financial (GNW), Horace Mann Educators (HMN), American International Group (AIG), The Hartford Insurance Group (HIG), Loews (L), Aegon (AEG), Fidelity National Financial (FNF), and Everest Group (EG). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

Kemper vs. Its Competitors

Kemper (NYSE:KMPR) and American Financial Group (NYSE:AFG) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and risk.

Kemper presently has a consensus price target of $79.40, indicating a potential upside of 26.29%. American Financial Group has a consensus price target of $139.33, indicating a potential upside of 11.25%. Given Kemper's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Kemper is more favorable than American Financial Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Kemper
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.20
American Financial Group
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

Kemper has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Financial Group has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.

86.2% of Kemper shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.4% of American Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. 6.2% of Kemper shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.4% of American Financial Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Kemper pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. American Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $3.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Kemper pays out 23.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. American Financial Group pays out 33.6% 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. Kemper has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and American Financial Group has raised its dividend for 19 consecutive years. American Financial Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

American Financial Group has higher revenue and earnings than Kemper. Kemper is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Financial Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Kemper$4.64B0.87$317.80M$5.3511.75
American Financial Group$8.32B1.26$887M$9.5213.16

American Financial Group has a net margin of 9.66% compared to Kemper's net margin of 7.38%. American Financial Group's return on equity of 18.34% beat Kemper's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Kemper7.38% 15.02% 3.31%
American Financial Group 9.66%18.34%2.66%

In the previous week, American Financial Group had 3 more articles in the media than Kemper. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for American Financial Group and 7 mentions for Kemper. American Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Kemper's score of 0.88 indicating that American Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Kemper
2 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
American Financial Group
7 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

American Financial Group beats Kemper on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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KMPR vs. The Competition

MetricKemperINS IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$4.14B$20.92B$12.03B$20.53B
Dividend Yield1.98%2.91%5.58%3.77%
P/E Ratio11.7513.6819.9527.85
Price / Sales0.872.1225.5437.49
Price / Cash9.5318.5721.3421.91
Price / Book1.454.092.264.55
Net Income$317.80M$1.60B$1.00B$984.95M
7 Day Performance-2.18%-0.37%1.75%2.31%
1 Month Performance-2.64%4.39%3.79%4.85%
1 Year Performance5.49%20.03%540.42%13.81%

Kemper Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
KMPR
Kemper
4.9021 of 5 stars
$62.87
-2.9%
$79.40
+26.3%
+5.8%$4.14B$4.64B11.759,500High Trading Volume
AFG
American Financial Group
4.7153 of 5 stars
$126.32
+1.1%
$139.33
+10.3%
+1.8%$10.57B$8.32B13.278,700Positive News
Dividend Announcement
AIZ
Assurant
4.9463 of 5 stars
$197.68
+0.4%
$228.67
+15.7%
+15.3%$10.06B$11.88B15.4114,200Positive News
Analyst Revision
GNW
Genworth Financial
4.0715 of 5 stars
$7.81
-0.4%
$9.00
+15.2%
+27.8%$3.24B$7.30B15.622,960
HMN
Horace Mann Educators
3.5083 of 5 stars
$42.97
+0.2%
$46.00
+7.1%
+29.0%$1.75B$1.60B15.571,750Positive News
AIG
American International Group
4.7415 of 5 stars
$85.67
+1.3%
$88.12
+2.9%
+9.3%$49.37B$27.25B-32.2126,200Positive News
HIG
The Hartford Insurance Group
4.9057 of 5 stars
$126.86
+1.7%
$132.58
+4.5%
+22.8%$36.04B$26.54B12.6518,100Positive News
L
Loews
3.6309 of 5 stars
$91.73
+1.5%
$112.00
+22.1%
+21.8%$19.24B$17.51B15.0612,000
AEG
Aegon
4.6077 of 5 stars
$7.24
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N/A+15.8%$15.96B$10.65B7.5423,123
FNF
Fidelity National Financial
4.4776 of 5 stars
$56.19
-0.6%
$71.60
+27.4%
+16.1%$15.43B$13.68B13.9123,533Positive News
EG
Everest Group
4.7474 of 5 stars
$340.41
+1.1%
$400.33
+17.6%
-9.6%$14.48B$17.28B17.513,037

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This page (NYSE:KMPR) was last updated on 7/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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