FIHL vs. RLI, AXS, SIGI, THG, ESGR, WTM, KMPR, MCY, SPNT, and PLMR
Should you be buying Fidelis Insurance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fidelis Insurance include RLI (RLI), AXIS Capital (AXS), Selective Insurance Group (SIGI), The Hanover Insurance Group (THG), Enstar Group (ESGR), White Mountains Insurance Group (WTM), Kemper (KMPR), Mercury General (MCY), SiriusPoint (SPNT), and Palomar (PLMR). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Fidelis Insurance (NYSE:FIHL) and RLI (NYSE:RLI) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation and risk.
RLI received 248 more outperform votes than Fidelis Insurance when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.52% of users gave Fidelis Insurance an outperform vote while only 55.53% of users gave RLI an outperform vote.
82.0% of Fidelis Insurance shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.9% of RLI shares are held by institutional investors. 5.1% of RLI shares are held by company 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.
Fidelis Insurance has a net margin of 23.31% compared to RLI's net margin of 20.96%. Fidelis Insurance's return on equity of 17.97% beat RLI's return on equity.
Fidelis Insurance has higher revenue and earnings than RLI. Fidelis Insurance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RLI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fidelis Insurance pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. RLI pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Fidelis Insurance pays out 9.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. RLI pays out 16.0% 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. Fidelis Insurance is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Fidelis Insurance had 1 more articles in the media than RLI. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Fidelis Insurance and 3 mentions for RLI. RLI's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Fidelis Insurance's score of 0.92 indicating that RLI is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Fidelis Insurance presently has a consensus price target of $18.94, indicating a potential upside of 18.43%. RLI has a consensus price target of $163.25, indicating a potential upside of 15.58%. Given Fidelis Insurance's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Fidelis Insurance is more favorable than RLI.
Summary
Fidelis Insurance beats RLI on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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