KNSL vs. SLF, WTW, PUK, RYAN, CRBG, PFG, AEG, EQH, EG, and BNT
Should you be buying Kinsale Capital Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kinsale Capital Group include Sun Life Financial (SLF), Willis Towers Watson Public (WTW), Prudential (PUK), Ryan Specialty (RYAN), Corebridge Financial (CRBG), Principal Financial Group (PFG), Aegon (AEG), Equitable (EQH), Everest Group (EG), and Brookfield Wealth Solutions (BNT). These companies are all part of the "insurance" industry.
Kinsale Capital Group vs. Its Competitors
Sun Life Financial (NYSE:SLF) and Kinsale Capital Group (NYSE:KNSL) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, earnings and risk.
Sun Life Financial has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kinsale Capital Group has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Kinsale Capital Group had 7 more articles in the media than Sun Life Financial. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Kinsale Capital Group and 5 mentions for Sun Life Financial. Kinsale Capital Group's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Sun Life Financial's score of 0.55 indicating that Kinsale Capital Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sun Life Financial presently has a consensus target price of $88.00, suggesting a potential upside of 36.02%. Kinsale Capital Group has a consensus target price of $484.57, suggesting a potential upside of 5.41%. Given Sun Life Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Sun Life Financial is more favorable than Kinsale Capital Group.
Sun Life Financial received 173 more outperform votes than Kinsale Capital Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.01% of users gave Kinsale Capital Group an outperform vote while only 62.37% of users gave Sun Life Financial an outperform vote.
Kinsale Capital Group has a net margin of 26.13% compared to Sun Life Financial's net margin of 8.08%. Kinsale Capital Group's return on equity of 28.04% beat Sun Life Financial's return on equity.
Sun Life Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Kinsale Capital Group. Sun Life Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kinsale Capital Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
52.3% of Sun Life Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.4% of Kinsale Capital Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.5% of Kinsale Capital Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Sun Life Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.55 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Kinsale Capital Group pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Sun Life Financial pays out 64.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kinsale Capital Group pays out 3.9% 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. Sun Life Financial has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years and Kinsale Capital Group has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Sun Life Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Kinsale Capital Group beats Sun Life Financial on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:KNSL) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
