ACGL vs. HIG, AIG, PGR, TRV, ALL, MKL, WRB, ERIE, CINF, and FNF
Should you be buying Arch Capital Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arch Capital Group include The Hartford Financial Services Group (HIG), American International Group (AIG), Progressive (PGR), Travelers Companies (TRV), Allstate (ALL), Markel Group (MKL), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Erie Indemnity (ERIE), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), and Fidelity National Financial (FNF).
The Hartford Financial Services Group (NYSE:HIG) and Arch Capital Group (NASDAQ:ACGL) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends and community ranking.
The Hartford Financial Services Group has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Arch Capital Group has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Arch Capital Group had 12 more articles in the media than The Hartford Financial Services Group. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Arch Capital Group and 5 mentions for The Hartford Financial Services Group. Arch Capital Group's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat The Hartford Financial Services Group's score of 0.79 indicating that The Hartford Financial Services Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
The Hartford Financial Services Group presently has a consensus target price of $105.88, indicating a potential upside of 4.55%. Arch Capital Group has a consensus target price of $100.67, indicating a potential downside of 1.55%. Given Arch Capital Group's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe The Hartford Financial Services Group is more favorable than Arch Capital Group.
93.4% of The Hartford Financial Services Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.1% of Arch Capital Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of The Hartford Financial Services Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Arch Capital Group 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.
The Hartford Financial Services Group received 208 more outperform votes than Arch Capital Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.77% of users gave The Hartford Financial Services Group an outperform vote while only 58.18% of users gave Arch Capital Group an outperform vote.
Arch Capital Group has a net margin of 33.65% compared to Arch Capital Group's net margin of 10.87%. The Hartford Financial Services Group's return on equity of 21.85% beat Arch Capital Group's return on equity.
Arch Capital Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than The Hartford Financial Services Group. Arch Capital Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The Hartford Financial Services Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Arch Capital Group beats The Hartford Financial Services Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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