HSX vs. ADM, RSA, DLG, HSTG, HUW, PGH, FBH, LGEN, AV, and SMT
Should you be buying Hiscox stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hiscox include Admiral Group (ADM), RSA Insurance Group (RSA), Direct Line Insurance Group (DLG), Hastings Group Holdings plc (HSTG.L) (HSTG), Helios Underwriting (HUW), Personal Group (PGH), FBD (FBH), Legal & General Group (LGEN), Aviva (AV), and Scottish Mortgage (SMT).
Admiral Group (LON:ADM) and Hiscox (LON:HSX) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Admiral Group has a beta of 0.2, meaning that its stock price is 80% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hiscox has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Hiscox received 92 more outperform votes than Admiral Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 47.70% of users gave Hiscox an outperform vote while only 37.74% of users gave Admiral Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Admiral Group had 2 more articles in the media than Hiscox. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Admiral Group and 4 mentions for Hiscox. Hiscox's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Admiral Group's score of 0.30 indicating that Admiral Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Admiral Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 2,620.50, indicating a potential downside of 3.45%. Hiscox has a consensus target price of GBX 1,235, indicating a potential upside of 8.14%. Given Admiral Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Hiscox is more favorable than Admiral Group.
62.9% of Admiral Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.6% of Hiscox shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.3% of Admiral Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Hiscox shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Admiral Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 73 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Hiscox pays an annual dividend of GBX 30 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Admiral Group pays out 6,576.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Hiscox pays out 1,886.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Hiscox has a net margin of 19.25% compared to Hiscox's net margin of 9.63%. Hiscox's return on equity of 35.88% beat Admiral Group's return on equity.
Hiscox has higher revenue and earnings than Admiral Group. Hiscox is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Admiral Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Hiscox beats Admiral Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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