ACGL vs. HIG, AIG, PGR, TRV, ALL, MKL, WRB, ERIE, CINF, and FNF
Should you be buying Arch Capital Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arch Capital Group include The Hartford Financial Services Group (HIG), American International Group (AIG), Progressive (PGR), Travelers Companies (TRV), Allstate (ALL), Markel Group (MKL), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Erie Indemnity (ERIE), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), and Fidelity National Financial (FNF).
Arch Capital Group (NASDAQ:ACGL) and The Hartford Financial Services Group (NYSE:HIG) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Arch Capital Group has a beta of 0.6, meaning that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, The Hartford Financial Services Group has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Arch Capital Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than The Hartford Financial Services Group. Arch Capital Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The Hartford Financial Services Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Arch Capital Group had 8 more articles in the media than The Hartford Financial Services Group. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Arch Capital Group and 7 mentions for The Hartford Financial Services Group. The Hartford Financial Services Group's average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat Arch Capital Group's score of 0.95 indicating that The Hartford Financial Services Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Arch Capital Group currently has a consensus price target of $101.33, indicating a potential upside of 0.76%. The Hartford Financial Services Group has a consensus price target of $105.88, indicating a potential upside of 4.99%. Given The Hartford Financial Services Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe The Hartford Financial Services Group is more favorable than Arch Capital Group.
Arch Capital Group has a net margin of 33.65% compared to The Hartford Financial Services Group's net margin of 10.87%. Arch Capital Group's return on equity of 21.85% beat The Hartford Financial Services Group's return on equity.
The Hartford Financial Services Group received 206 more outperform votes than Arch Capital Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.77% of users gave The Hartford Financial Services Group an outperform vote while only 58.29% of users gave Arch Capital Group an outperform vote.
89.1% of Arch Capital Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.4% of The Hartford Financial Services Group shares are held by institutional investors. 4.0% of Arch Capital Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of The Hartford Financial Services Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Arch Capital Group beats The Hartford Financial Services Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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