ORI vs. AGO, ESNT, MTG, RDN, NMIH, SF, FHN, KNSL, BSAC, and JLL
Should you be buying Old Republic International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Old Republic International include Assured Guaranty (AGO), Essent Group (ESNT), MGIC Investment (MTG), Radian Group (RDN), NMI (NMIH), Stifel Financial (SF), First Horizon (FHN), Kinsale Capital Group (KNSL), Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC), and Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Assured Guaranty (NYSE:AGO) and Old Republic International (NYSE:ORI) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and profitability.
Assured Guaranty received 157 more outperform votes than Old Republic International when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.81% of users gave Assured Guaranty an outperform vote while only 62.57% of users gave Old Republic International an outperform vote.
Assured Guaranty currently has a consensus target price of $97.00, indicating a potential upside of 22.46%. Old Republic International has a consensus target price of $34.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.25%. Given Old Republic International's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Assured Guaranty is more favorable than Old Republic International.
Assured Guaranty has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Old Republic International has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Assured Guaranty pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Old Republic International pays an annual dividend of $1.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Assured Guaranty pays out 10.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Old Republic International pays out 41.2% 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. Assured Guaranty has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years and Old Republic International has raised its dividend for 44 consecutive years. Old Republic International is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
92.2% of Assured Guaranty shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.9% of Old Republic International shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.1% of Assured Guaranty shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Old Republic International shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Assured Guaranty has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Old Republic International. Assured Guaranty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Old Republic International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Assured Guaranty has a net margin of 53.82% compared to Assured Guaranty's net margin of 9.52%. Assured Guaranty's return on equity of 12.15% beat Old Republic International's return on equity.
In the previous week, Assured Guaranty had 10 more articles in the media than Old Republic International. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Assured Guaranty and 12 mentions for Old Republic International. Assured Guaranty's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Old Republic International's score of 1.02 indicating that Old Republic International is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Assured Guaranty beats Old Republic International on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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