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WDH vs. GSHD, HG, SPNT, FIHL, SKWD, TRUP, SLDE, TWFG, CLOV, and ROOT

Should you be buying Waterdrop stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Waterdrop include Goosehead Insurance (GSHD), Hamilton Insurance Group (HG), SiriusPoint (SPNT), Fidelis Insurance (FIHL), Skyward Specialty Insurance Group (SKWD), Trupanion (TRUP), Slide Insurance (SLDE), TWFG (TWFG), Clover Health Investments (CLOV), and Root (ROOT). These companies are all part of the "insurance" industry.

Waterdrop vs. Its Competitors

Goosehead Insurance (NASDAQ:GSHD) and Waterdrop (NYSE:WDH) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Goosehead Insurance$314.51M8.83$30.43M$1.1365.40
Waterdrop$2.98B0.22$50.35M$0.1710.50

2.0% of Waterdrop shares are owned by institutional investors. 48.4% of Goosehead Insurance shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 24.6% of Waterdrop shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Goosehead Insurance has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Waterdrop has a beta of -0.25, indicating that its stock price is 125% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Goosehead Insurance presently has a consensus target price of $99.90, suggesting a potential upside of 35.18%. Waterdrop has a consensus target price of $2.00, suggesting a potential upside of 12.04%. Given Goosehead Insurance's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Goosehead Insurance is more favorable than Waterdrop.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Goosehead Insurance
2 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.23
Waterdrop
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

Waterdrop has a net margin of 14.77% compared to Goosehead Insurance's net margin of 8.55%. Waterdrop's return on equity of 9.07% beat Goosehead Insurance's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Goosehead Insurance8.55% -34.60% 8.55%
Waterdrop 14.77%9.07%6.81%

In the previous week, Goosehead Insurance had 13 more articles in the media than Waterdrop. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Goosehead Insurance and 2 mentions for Waterdrop. Waterdrop's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Goosehead Insurance's score of 0.17 indicating that Waterdrop is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Goosehead Insurance
3 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Waterdrop
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Goosehead Insurance beats Waterdrop on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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WDH vs. The Competition

MetricWaterdropINS IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$645.21M$20.75B$12.73B$22.10B
Dividend Yield2.68%2.68%5.54%3.55%
P/E Ratio10.5013.4422.4233.37
Price / Sales0.222.0930.2383.20
Price / Cash12.5017.2922.5724.64
Price / Book0.992.052.204.66
Net Income$50.35M$1.62B$1.02B$1.02B
7 Day PerformanceN/A2.09%1.62%2.22%
1 Month Performance-7.75%-2.80%0.01%1.79%
1 Year Performance55.22%14.92%542.49%14.02%

Waterdrop Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WDH
Waterdrop
3.1651 of 5 stars
$1.79
-0.3%
$2.00
+12.0%
+55.2%$645.21M$2.98B10.503,057Positive News
Analyst Forecast
GSHD
Goosehead Insurance
4.2496 of 5 stars
$65.39
-2.4%
$105.09
+60.7%
-31.9%$2.52B$314.51M57.871,580News Coverage
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
HG
Hamilton Insurance Group
2.7167 of 5 stars
$23.82
+0.3%
$27.00
+13.4%
+40.8%$2.38B$2.33B6.58550Analyst Forecast
SPNT
SiriusPoint
2.9806 of 5 stars
$17.76
+0.7%
$25.00
+40.8%
+36.3%$2.06B$2.60B19.951,072News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
FIHL
Fidelis Insurance
3.7414 of 5 stars
$18.16
+1.4%
$20.71
+14.1%
+5.3%$1.98B$2.42B-44.2977News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
SKWD
Skyward Specialty Insurance Group
3.9306 of 5 stars
$46.45
+0.4%
$60.70
+30.7%
+1.8%$1.87B$1.26B14.61400Upcoming Earnings
TRUP
Trupanion
3.9284 of 5 stars
$44.01
+2.6%
$53.80
+22.2%
-18.3%$1.84B$1.29B169.281,130Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
SLDE
Slide Insurance
N/A$14.95
+1.8%
$21.67
+44.9%
N/A$1.84BN/A0.00392Positive News
Analyst Forecast
TWFG
TWFG
2.3978 of 5 stars
$25.31
-1.7%
$33.29
+31.5%
-14.0%$1.44B$203.76M61.73N/AAnalyst Forecast
CLOV
Clover Health Investments
1.67 of 5 stars
$2.92
+7.7%
$4.37
+49.5%
-2.6%$1.39B$1.37B-36.50680Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
Gap Up
ROOT
Root
3.3133 of 5 stars
$77.69
+2.8%
$124.40
+60.1%
+101.7%$1.17B$1.18B15.511,021Analyst Forecast

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