TIPT vs. UVE, UFCS, PRA, GLRE, HIPO, GBLI, DGICA, AMSF, NODK, and ROOT
Should you be buying Tiptree stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tiptree include Universal Insurance (UVE), United Fire Group (UFCS), ProAssurance (PRA), Greenlight Capital Re (GLRE), Hippo (HIPO), Global Indemnity Group (GBLI), Donegal Group (DGICA), AMERISAFE (AMSF), NI (NODK), and Root (ROOT). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Tiptree (NASDAQ:TIPT) and Universal Insurance (NYSE:UVE) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Universal Insurance has a consensus price target of $25.00, indicating a potential upside of 21.48%. Given Universal Insurance's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Universal Insurance is more favorable than Tiptree.
Universal Insurance has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Tiptree. Universal Insurance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tiptree, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Universal Insurance had 7 more articles in the media than Tiptree. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Universal Insurance and 2 mentions for Tiptree. Tiptree's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Universal Insurance's score of 0.40 indicating that Tiptree is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Tiptree has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Universal Insurance has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
37.8% of Tiptree shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.6% of Universal Insurance shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.8% of Tiptree shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.7% of Universal Insurance shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Universal Insurance received 111 more outperform votes than Tiptree when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.65% of users gave Tiptree an outperform vote while only 63.31% of users gave Universal Insurance an outperform vote.
Universal Insurance has a net margin of 5.29% compared to Tiptree's net margin of 1.36%. Universal Insurance's return on equity of 19.67% beat Tiptree's return on equity.
Tiptree pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Universal Insurance pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Tiptree pays out 42.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Universal Insurance pays out 25.1% 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. Universal Insurance is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Universal Insurance beats Tiptree on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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