MTG vs. RDN, ESNT, AGO, NMIH, ORI, JXN, RITM, SNV, TRNO, and HR
Should you be buying MGIC Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MGIC Investment include Radian Group (RDN), Essent Group (ESNT), Assured Guaranty (AGO), NMI (NMIH), Old Republic International (ORI), Jackson Financial (JXN), Rithm Capital (RITM), Synovus Financial (SNV), Terreno Realty (TRNO), and Healthcare Realty Trust (HR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Radian Group (NYSE:RDN) and MGIC Investment (NYSE:MTG) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk and analyst recommendations.
Radian Group has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MGIC Investment has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
MGIC Investment has a net margin of 62.85% compared to MGIC Investment's net margin of 47.74%. Radian Group's return on equity of 15.13% beat MGIC Investment's return on equity.
95.3% of Radian Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.6% of MGIC Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Radian Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of MGIC Investment shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
MGIC Investment received 12 more outperform votes than Radian Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.27% of users gave MGIC Investment an outperform vote while only 65.23% of users gave Radian Group an outperform vote.
Radian Group pays an annual dividend of $0.98 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. MGIC Investment pays an annual dividend of $0.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Radian Group pays out 25.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MGIC Investment pays out 17.7% 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. Radian Group has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years and MGIC Investment has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Radian Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
MGIC Investment has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Radian Group. MGIC Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Radian Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Radian Group had 3 more articles in the media than MGIC Investment. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Radian Group and 11 mentions for MGIC Investment. MGIC Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Radian Group's score of 0.64 indicating that Radian Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Radian Group presently has a consensus price target of $30.00, indicating a potential downside of 2.76%. MGIC Investment has a consensus price target of $21.08, indicating a potential upside of 2.05%. Given Radian Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe MGIC Investment is more favorable than Radian Group.
Summary
MGIC Investment beats Radian Group on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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