AXS vs. MKL, WRB, ERIE, CINF, FNF, CNA, ORI, RLI, SIGI, and FAF
Should you be buying AXIS Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AXIS Capital include Markel Group (MKL), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Erie Indemnity (ERIE), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), Fidelity National Financial (FNF), CNA Financial (CNA), Old Republic International (ORI), RLI (RLI), Selective Insurance Group (SIGI), and First American Financial (FAF). These companies are all part of the "property & casualty insurance" industry.
AXIS Capital (NYSE:AXS) and Markel Group (NYSE:MKL) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, community ranking and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Markel Group had 6 more articles in the media than AXIS Capital. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Markel Group and 8 mentions for AXIS Capital. Markel Group's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat AXIS Capital's score of 0.73 indicating that Markel Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Markel Group has a net margin of 15.23% compared to AXIS Capital's net margin of 10.34%. AXIS Capital's return on equity of 19.11% beat Markel Group's return on equity.
AXIS Capital currently has a consensus target price of $68.33, suggesting a potential downside of 7.51%. Markel Group has a consensus target price of $1,520.00, suggesting a potential downside of 7.41%. Given Markel Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Markel Group is more favorable than AXIS Capital.
AXIS Capital received 68 more outperform votes than Markel Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.04% of users gave Markel Group an outperform vote while only 54.29% of users gave AXIS Capital an outperform vote.
Markel Group has higher revenue and earnings than AXIS Capital. Markel Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AXIS Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AXIS Capital has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Markel Group has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
93.4% of AXIS Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.1% of Markel Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of AXIS Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Markel Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Markel Group beats AXIS Capital on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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