PRA vs. HTH, STC, SAFT, EIG, HCI, AMSF, UFCS, UVE, DGICA, and GBLI
Should you be buying ProAssurance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ProAssurance include Hilltop (HTH), Stewart Information Services (STC), Safety Insurance Group (SAFT), Employers (EIG), HCI Group (HCI), AMERISAFE (AMSF), United Fire Group (UFCS), Universal Insurance (UVE), Donegal Group (DGICA), and Global Indemnity Group (GBLI). These companies are all part of the "property & casualty insurance" industry.
ProAssurance (NYSE:PRA) and Hilltop (NYSE:HTH) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.
ProAssurance has a beta of 0.24, meaning that its stock price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hilltop has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ProAssurance received 13 more outperform votes than Hilltop when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.72% of users gave ProAssurance an outperform vote while only 53.76% of users gave Hilltop an outperform vote.
ProAssurance pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Hilltop pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. ProAssurance pays out -37.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hilltop pays out 39.8% 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.
85.6% of ProAssurance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.1% of Hilltop shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of ProAssurance shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 28.9% of Hilltop shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Hilltop has a net margin of 6.95% compared to ProAssurance's net margin of -2.42%. Hilltop's return on equity of 5.24% beat ProAssurance's return on equity.
Hilltop has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ProAssurance. ProAssurance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hilltop, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ProAssurance currently has a consensus target price of $17.67, indicating a potential upside of 31.16%. Hilltop has a consensus target price of $32.00, indicating a potential upside of 7.13%. Given ProAssurance's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe ProAssurance is more favorable than Hilltop.
In the previous week, ProAssurance had 5 more articles in the media than Hilltop. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for ProAssurance and 2 mentions for Hilltop. ProAssurance's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Hilltop's score of 0.00 indicating that ProAssurance is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
ProAssurance and Hilltop tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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