MCY vs. WTM, HCI, THG, AMSF, AXS, SIGI, RLI, FIHL, KMPR, and SPNT
Should you be buying Mercury General stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mercury General include White Mountains Insurance Group (WTM), HCI Group (HCI), The Hanover Insurance Group (THG), AMERISAFE (AMSF), AXIS Capital (AXS), Selective Insurance Group (SIGI), RLI (RLI), Fidelis Insurance (FIHL), Kemper (KMPR), and SiriusPoint (SPNT). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Mercury General (NYSE:MCY) and White Mountains Insurance Group (NYSE:WTM) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, earnings, community ranking, valuation and media sentiment.
Mercury General pays an annual dividend of $1.27 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. White Mountains Insurance Group pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Mercury General pays out 32.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. White Mountains Insurance Group pays out 0.5% 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.
Mercury General has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, White Mountains Insurance Group has a beta of 0.42, suggesting that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.
White Mountains Insurance Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Mercury General. White Mountains Insurance 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.
42.4% of Mercury General shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.7% of White Mountains Insurance Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 35.5% of Mercury General shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of White Mountains Insurance Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
White Mountains Insurance Group has a net margin of 23.50% compared to Mercury General's net margin of 4.48%. Mercury General's return on equity of 9.85% beat White Mountains Insurance Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Mercury General had 9 more articles in the media than White Mountains Insurance Group. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Mercury General and 3 mentions for White Mountains Insurance Group. Mercury General's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat White Mountains Insurance Group's score of 0.05 indicating that Mercury General is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Mercury General presently has a consensus price target of $33.00, suggesting a potential downside of 39.67%. Given Mercury General's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Mercury General is more favorable than White Mountains Insurance Group.
Mercury General received 19 more outperform votes than White Mountains Insurance Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.42% of users gave White Mountains Insurance Group an outperform vote while only 50.73% of users gave Mercury General an outperform vote.
Summary
Mercury General beats White Mountains Insurance Group on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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