ERIE vs. BRO, WTW, RYAN, EQH, AJG, AON, BSBR, HBAN, WRB, and LPLA
Should you be buying Erie Indemnity stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Erie Indemnity include Brown & Brown (BRO), Willis Towers Watson Public (WTW), Ryan Specialty (RYAN), Equitable (EQH), Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (AJG), AON (AON), Banco Santander (Brasil) (BSBR), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), W. R. Berkley (WRB), and LPL Financial (LPLA). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Erie Indemnity (NASDAQ:ERIE) and Brown & Brown (NYSE:BRO) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking, risk and dividends.
33.7% of Erie Indemnity shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.0% of Brown & Brown shares are owned by institutional investors. 45.8% of Erie Indemnity shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.0% of Brown & Brown shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Erie Indemnity has a beta of 0.43, meaning that its share price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brown & Brown has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Brown & Brown had 86 more articles in the media than Erie Indemnity. MarketBeat recorded 86 mentions for Brown & Brown and 0 mentions for Erie Indemnity. Brown & Brown's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Erie Indemnity's score of 0.00 indicating that Brown & Brown is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Brown & Brown has a consensus target price of $87.30, indicating a potential downside of 2.82%. Given Brown & Brown's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Brown & Brown is more favorable than Erie Indemnity.
Brown & Brown has higher revenue and earnings than Erie Indemnity. Brown & Brown is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Erie Indemnity, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Erie Indemnity pays an annual dividend of $5.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Brown & Brown pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Erie Indemnity pays out 55.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brown & Brown pays out 16.0% 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.
Brown & Brown has a net margin of 21.09% compared to Erie Indemnity's net margin of 14.26%. Erie Indemnity's return on equity of 29.60% beat Brown & Brown's return on equity.
Brown & Brown received 162 more outperform votes than Erie Indemnity when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.59% of users gave Erie Indemnity an outperform vote while only 54.98% of users gave Brown & Brown an outperform vote.
Summary
Brown & Brown beats Erie Indemnity on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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