FAF vs. STC, FNF, SNV, JXN, SIGI, AXS, ESNT, OMF, AIRC, and ONB
Should you be buying First American Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of First American Financial include Stewart Information Services (STC), Fidelity National Financial (FNF), Synovus Financial (SNV), Jackson Financial (JXN), Selective Insurance Group (SIGI), AXIS Capital (AXS), Essent Group (ESNT), OneMain (OMF), Apartment Income REIT (AIRC), and Old National Bancorp (ONB). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Stewart Information Services (NYSE:STC) and First American Financial (NYSE:FAF) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment and profitability.
Stewart Information Services pays an annual dividend of $1.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. First American Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Stewart Information Services pays out 125.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. First American Financial pays out 101.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Stewart Information Services has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and First American Financial has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years. First American Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
96.9% of Stewart Information Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.1% of First American Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Stewart Information Services shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of First American Financial shares are held 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.
First American Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Stewart Information Services. First American Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Stewart Information Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, First American Financial had 14 more articles in the media than Stewart Information Services. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for First American Financial and 3 mentions for Stewart Information Services. First American Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat Stewart Information Services' score of 0.41 indicating that Stewart Information Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Stewart Information Services has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, First American Financial has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Stewart Information Services presently has a consensus target price of $69.33, indicating a potential upside of 7.24%. First American Financial has a consensus target price of $67.75, indicating a potential upside of 17.76%. Given Stewart Information Services' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe First American Financial is more favorable than Stewart Information Services.
First American Financial received 84 more outperform votes than Stewart Information Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.57% of users gave First American Financial an outperform vote while only 52.47% of users gave Stewart Information Services an outperform vote.
First American Financial has a net margin of 3.64% compared to First American Financial's net margin of 1.83%. Stewart Information Services' return on equity of 8.17% beat First American Financial's return on equity.
Summary
First American Financial beats Stewart Information Services on 17 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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