TCPC vs. ROOT, AMSF, HCI, EIG, PRA, SAFT, TIPT, UVE, UFCS, and LMND
Should you be buying BlackRock TCP Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackRock TCP Capital include Root (ROOT), AMERISAFE (AMSF), HCI Group (HCI), Employers (EIG), ProAssurance (PRA), Safety Insurance Group (SAFT), Tiptree (TIPT), Universal Insurance (UVE), United Fire Group (UFCS), and Lemonade (LMND). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
BlackRock TCP Capital (NASDAQ:TCPC) and Root (NASDAQ:ROOT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, valuation and earnings.
BlackRock TCP Capital has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Root. Root is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BlackRock TCP Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BlackRock TCP Capital has a net margin of 9.69% compared to Root's net margin of -17.61%. BlackRock TCP Capital's return on equity of 13.95% beat Root's return on equity.
59.8% of Root shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of BlackRock TCP Capital shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.3% of Root shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
BlackRock TCP Capital currently has a consensus price target of $10.67, indicating a potential downside of 1.05%. Root has a consensus price target of $40.75, indicating a potential downside of 37.86%. Given BlackRock TCP Capital's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe BlackRock TCP Capital is more favorable than Root.
BlackRock TCP Capital has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Root has a beta of 2.72, meaning that its stock price is 172% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Root had 2 more articles in the media than BlackRock TCP Capital. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Root and 0 mentions for BlackRock TCP Capital. Root's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat BlackRock TCP Capital's score of 0.00 indicating that Root is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BlackRock TCP Capital received 372 more outperform votes than Root when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.80% of users gave BlackRock TCP Capital an outperform vote while only 25.88% of users gave Root an outperform vote.
Summary
BlackRock TCP Capital beats Root on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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