AXS vs. SIGI, RLI, THG, WTM, MCY, CNA, CINF, WRB, ESGR, and KMPR
Should you be buying AXIS Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AXIS Capital include Selective Insurance Group (SIGI), RLI (RLI), The Hanover Insurance Group (THG), White Mountains Insurance Group (WTM), Mercury General (MCY), CNA Financial (CNA), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Enstar Group (ESGR), and Kemper (KMPR). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Selective Insurance Group (NASDAQ:SIGI) and AXIS Capital (NYSE:AXS) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, profitability, risk, valuation, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Selective Insurance Group presently has a consensus price target of $105.17, suggesting a potential upside of 7.55%. AXIS Capital has a consensus price target of $68.33, suggesting a potential downside of 4.40%. Given AXIS Capital's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Selective Insurance Group is more favorable than AXIS Capital.
Selective Insurance Group pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. AXIS Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Selective Insurance Group pays out 24.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AXIS Capital pays out 26.9% 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. Selective Insurance Group has raised its dividend for 10 consecutive years and AXIS Capital has raised its dividend for 23 consecutive years. AXIS Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, AXIS Capital had 21 more articles in the media than Selective Insurance Group. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for AXIS Capital and 3 mentions for Selective Insurance Group. AXIS Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Selective Insurance Group's score of 0.39 indicating that Selective Insurance Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
82.9% of Selective Insurance Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.4% of AXIS Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Selective Insurance Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of AXIS Capital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
AXIS Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Selective Insurance Group. AXIS Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Selective Insurance Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AXIS Capital has a net margin of 10.34% compared to AXIS Capital's net margin of 8.02%. Selective Insurance Group's return on equity of 19.11% beat AXIS Capital's return on equity.
Selective Insurance Group has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AXIS Capital has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
AXIS Capital received 55 more outperform votes than Selective Insurance Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.96% of users gave Selective Insurance Group an outperform vote while only 54.29% of users gave AXIS Capital an outperform vote.
Summary
AXIS Capital beats Selective Insurance Group on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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