EG vs. AIG, TRV, ALL, ACGL, HIG, MKL, WRB, CINF, L, and RNR
Should you be buying Everest Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Everest Group include American International Group (AIG), Travelers Companies (TRV), Allstate (ALL), Arch Capital Group (ACGL), The Hartford Financial Services Group (HIG), Markel Group (MKL), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), Loews (L), and RenaissanceRe (RNR). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
American International Group (NYSE:AIG) and Everest Group (NYSE:EG) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
American International Group has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Everest Group has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
American International Group received 849 more outperform votes than Everest Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.05% of users gave American International Group an outperform vote while only 61.11% of users gave Everest Group an outperform vote.
American International Group pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Everest Group pays an annual dividend of $8.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. American International Group pays out 21.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Everest Group pays out 11.9% 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. American International Group has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Everest Group has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Everest Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
American International Group has higher revenue and earnings than Everest Group. Everest Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American International Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
90.6% of American International Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.6% of Everest Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of American International Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Everest Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Everest Group has a net margin of 18.69% compared to Everest Group's net margin of 9.98%. American International Group's return on equity of 24.86% beat Everest Group's return on equity.
American International Group currently has a consensus target price of $81.06, indicating a potential upside of 2.85%. Everest Group has a consensus target price of $432.11, indicating a potential upside of 10.53%. Given American International Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Everest Group is more favorable than American International Group.
In the previous week, American International Group and American International Group both had 14 articles in the media. Everest Group's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat American International Group's score of 0.55 indicating that American International Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Everest Group beats American International Group on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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