SIGI vs. THG, ESGR, WTM, MCY, MKL, WRB, ERIE, CINF, FNF, and CNA
Should you be buying Selective Insurance Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Selective Insurance Group include The Hanover Insurance Group (THG), Enstar Group (ESGR), White Mountains Insurance Group (WTM), Mercury General (MCY), Markel Group (MKL), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Erie Indemnity (ERIE), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), Fidelity National Financial (FNF), and CNA Financial (CNA).
The Hanover Insurance Group (NYSE:THG) and Selective Insurance Group (NASDAQ:SIGI) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations and profitability.
The Hanover Insurance Group presently has a consensus target price of $146.00, indicating a potential upside of 14.29%. Selective Insurance Group has a consensus target price of $105.17, indicating a potential upside of 11.74%. Given Selective Insurance Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe The Hanover Insurance Group is more favorable than Selective Insurance Group.
In the previous week, The Hanover Insurance Group and The Hanover Insurance Group both had 5 articles in the media. The Hanover Insurance Group's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Selective Insurance Group's score of 0.87 indicating that Selective Insurance Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
86.6% of The Hanover Insurance Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.9% of Selective Insurance Group shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of The Hanover Insurance Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Selective Insurance Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
The Hanover Insurance Group received 53 more outperform votes than Selective Insurance Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.96% of users gave Selective Insurance Group an outperform vote while only 60.03% of users gave The Hanover Insurance Group an outperform vote.
Selective Insurance Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than The Hanover Insurance Group. Selective Insurance Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The Hanover Insurance Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
The Hanover Insurance Group pays an annual dividend of $3.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Selective Insurance Group pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. The Hanover Insurance Group pays out 76.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Selective Insurance Group pays out 24.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Selective Insurance Group has raised its dividend for 10 consecutive years.
The Hanover Insurance Group has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Selective Insurance Group has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Selective Insurance Group has a net margin of 8.02% compared to Selective Insurance Group's net margin of 2.67%. The Hanover Insurance Group's return on equity of 13.73% beat Selective Insurance Group's return on equity.
Summary
The Hanover Insurance Group and Selective Insurance Group tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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