EG vs. WRB, CINF, L, CNA, RNR, AFG, HIG, KNSL, RLI, and SIGI
Should you be buying Everest Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Everest Group include W. R. Berkley (WRB), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), Loews (L), CNA Financial (CNA), RenaissanceRe (RNR), American Financial Group (AFG), The Hartford Financial Services Group (HIG), Kinsale Capital Group (KNSL), RLI (RLI), and Selective Insurance Group (SIGI). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Everest Group (NYSE:EG) and W. R. Berkley (NYSE:WRB) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and risk.
Everest Group presently has a consensus target price of $432.11, indicating a potential upside of 12.84%. W. R. Berkley has a consensus target price of $90.38, indicating a potential upside of 13.34%. Given W. R. Berkley's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe W. R. Berkley is more favorable than Everest Group.
92.6% of Everest Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.8% of W. R. Berkley shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Everest Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.9% of W. R. Berkley shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Everest Group has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, W. R. Berkley has a beta of 0.6, indicating that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
W. R. Berkley received 302 more outperform votes than Everest Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.11% of users gave Everest Group an outperform vote while only 51.14% of users gave W. R. Berkley an outperform vote.
Everest Group has a net margin of 18.69% compared to W. R. Berkley's net margin of 12.23%. Everest Group's return on equity of 24.86% beat W. R. Berkley's return on equity.
Everest Group pays an annual dividend of $7.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. W. R. Berkley pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Everest Group pays out 10.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. W. R. Berkley pays out 7.8% 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.
In the previous week, Everest Group had 5 more articles in the media than W. R. Berkley. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Everest Group and 7 mentions for W. R. Berkley. W. R. Berkley's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Everest Group's score of 1.03 indicating that W. R. Berkley is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Everest Group has higher revenue and earnings than W. R. Berkley. Everest Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than W. R. Berkley, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Everest Group beats W. R. Berkley on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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