ProAssurance (PRA) Competitors

White Mountains Insurance Group (NYSE:WTM) and ProAssurance (NYSE:PRA) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation and dividends.

Is WTM or PRA a better dividend stock?

White Mountains Insurance Group pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. ProAssurance pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. White Mountains Insurance Group pays out 9.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ProAssurance pays out 24.4% 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.

Which has more risk and volatility, WTM or PRA?

White Mountains Insurance Group has a beta of 0.34, indicating that its stock price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ProAssurance has a beta of 0.04, indicating that its stock price is 96% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has higher earnings and valuation, WTM or PRA?

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

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
White Mountains Insurance Group	$2.28B	2.07	$230.40M	$10.85	169.41
ProAssurance	$1.11B	1.07	-$38.60M	$0.82	28.29

Do institutionals and insiders have more ownership in WTM or PRA?

88.7% of White Mountains Insurance Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.6% of ProAssurance shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of White Mountains Insurance Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of ProAssurance 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.

Is WTM or PRA more profitable?

White Mountains Insurance Group has a net margin of 10.29% compared to ProAssurance's net margin of 3.71%. White Mountains Insurance Group's return on equity of 10.56% beat ProAssurance's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
White Mountains Insurance Group	10.29%	10.56%	5.27%
ProAssurance	3.71%	2.65%	0.54%

Does the media refer more to WTM or PRA?

In the previous week, White Mountains Insurance Group had 4 more articles in the media than ProAssurance. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for White Mountains Insurance Group and 6 mentions for ProAssurance. ProAssurance's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat White Mountains Insurance Group's score of 1.12 indicating that ProAssurance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
White Mountains Insurance Group	7 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
ProAssurance	5 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Do analysts rate WTM or PRA?

ProAssurance has a consensus price target of $21.00, suggesting a potential downside of 9.46%. Given ProAssurance's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe ProAssurance is more favorable than White Mountains Insurance Group.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
White Mountains Insurance Group	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
ProAssurance	1 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer WTM or PRA?

ProAssurance received 37 more outperform votes than White Mountains Insurance Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.10% of users gave White Mountains Insurance Group an outperform vote while only 56.86% of users gave ProAssurance an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
White Mountains Insurance Group	Outperform Votes 224 59.10%	Underperform Votes 155 40.90%
ProAssurance	Outperform Votes 261 56.86%	Underperform Votes 198 43.14%

Summary

White Mountains Insurance Group beats ProAssurance on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.