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MTG vs. NMIH, AIZ, CNO, ESNT, MET, PFG, PRU, RDN, TFSL, and SMPL

Should you be buying MGIC Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MGIC Investment include NMI (NMIH), Assurant (AIZ), CNO Financial Group (CNO), Essent Group (ESNT), MetLife (MET), Principal Financial Group (PFG), Prudential Financial (PRU), Radian Group (RDN), TFS Financial (TFSL), and Simply Good Foods (SMPL).

MGIC Investment vs. Its Competitors

NMI (NASDAQ:NMIH) and MGIC Investment (NYSE:MTG) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, risk and media sentiment.

NMI currently has a consensus price target of $43.00, suggesting a potential upside of 13.28%. MGIC Investment has a consensus price target of $26.88, suggesting a potential upside of 4.61%. Given NMI's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe NMI is more favorable than MGIC Investment.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
NMI
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.57
MGIC Investment
1 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.13

MGIC Investment has higher revenue and earnings than NMI. NMI is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MGIC Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
NMI$650.97M4.56$360.11M$4.638.20
MGIC Investment$1.22B5.00$762.99M$3.018.54

MGIC Investment has a net margin of 63.49% compared to NMI's net margin of 55.93%. NMI's return on equity of 17.27% beat MGIC Investment's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
NMI55.93% 17.27% 11.46%
MGIC Investment 63.49%14.96%11.80%

94.1% of NMI shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.6% of MGIC Investment shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of NMI shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of MGIC Investment shares are held by company 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.

In the previous week, NMI had 15 more articles in the media than MGIC Investment. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for NMI and 12 mentions for MGIC Investment. MGIC Investment's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat NMI's score of 1.00 indicating that MGIC Investment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
NMI
8 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
7 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
MGIC Investment
8 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

NMI has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MGIC Investment has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

MGIC Investment beats NMI on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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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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MTG vs. The Competition

MetricMGIC InvestmentINS IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$6.06B$20.33B$12.18B$21.03B
Dividend Yield2.03%2.94%5.56%3.60%
P/E Ratio8.5412.9318.9827.92
Price / Sales5.002.0326.1768.03
Price / Cash8.2216.7421.5723.29
Price / Book1.261.972.174.54
Net Income$762.99M$1.60B$999.65M$993.24M
7 Day Performance-0.22%-2.59%-1.15%-1.51%
1 Month Performance-7.69%-1.79%2.46%3.16%
1 Year Performance3.74%10.56%539.20%9.14%

MGIC Investment Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MTG
MGIC Investment
3.6697 of 5 stars
$25.69
+0.6%
$26.88
+4.6%
+4.7%$6.06B$1.22B8.54680Positive News
Dividend Increase
NMIH
NMI
3.0321 of 5 stars
$38.26
+0.7%
$43.00
+12.4%
-3.6%$2.99B$650.97M8.26234Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Revision
AIZ
Assurant
4.8505 of 5 stars
$186.00
-1.1%
$228.83
+23.0%
+7.3%$9.46B$11.88B14.5014,200Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
CNO
CNO Financial Group
4.7978 of 5 stars
$37.14
-1.5%
$41.00
+10.4%
+19.4%$3.68B$4.45B12.993,500Trending News
Earnings Report
ESNT
Essent Group
4.8415 of 5 stars
$55.98
+0.5%
$63.71
+13.8%
-8.7%$5.68B$1.24B8.20350Positive News
MET
MetLife
4.9918 of 5 stars
$76.29
-1.1%
$95.50
+25.2%
+2.9%$51.22B$70.99B12.4145,000Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
PFG
Principal Financial Group
3.991 of 5 stars
$78.74
-2.9%
$84.82
+7.7%
-1.5%$17.65B$15.77B11.7919,300Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Increase
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
PRU
Prudential Financial
4.9118 of 5 stars
$102.06
-1.2%
$121.62
+19.2%
-16.8%$36.13B$68.05B16.1738,196
RDN
Radian Group
3.4312 of 5 stars
$33.94
+0.4%
$37.50
+10.5%
-7.3%$4.56B$1.29B8.641,400Positive News
TFSL
TFS Financial
2.746 of 5 stars
$13.03
-0.2%
$15.00
+15.1%
-7.3%$3.67B$304.60M46.541,000Positive News
SMPL
Simply Good Foods
4.5627 of 5 stars
$32.75
+0.1%
$39.88
+21.8%
-8.6%$3.29B$1.33B22.90260Positive News

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