FIHL vs. RLI, AXS, SIGI, THG, ESGR, WTM, KMPR, MCY, SPNT, and PLMR
Should you be buying Fidelis Insurance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fidelis Insurance include RLI (RLI), AXIS Capital (AXS), Selective Insurance Group (SIGI), The Hanover Insurance Group (THG), Enstar Group (ESGR), White Mountains Insurance Group (WTM), Kemper (KMPR), Mercury General (MCY), SiriusPoint (SPNT), and Palomar (PLMR). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
RLI (NYSE:RLI) and Fidelis Insurance (NYSE:FIHL) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and institutional ownership.
RLI presently has a consensus target price of $163.25, suggesting a potential upside of 14.71%. Fidelis Insurance has a consensus target price of $18.94, suggesting a potential upside of 19.25%. Given RLI's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Fidelis Insurance is more favorable than RLI.
Fidelis Insurance has higher revenue and earnings than RLI. Fidelis Insurance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RLI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, RLI and RLI both had 6 articles in the media. Fidelis Insurance's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat RLI's score of 0.30 indicating that RLI is being referred to more favorably in the media.
RLI pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Fidelis Insurance pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. RLI pays out 14.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fidelis Insurance pays out 9.7% 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. RLI has raised its dividend for 50 consecutive years. Fidelis Insurance is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
77.9% of RLI shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.0% of Fidelis Insurance shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.9% of RLI shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
RLI received 248 more outperform votes than Fidelis Insurance when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.52% of users gave Fidelis Insurance an outperform vote while only 55.53% of users gave RLI an outperform vote.
Fidelis Insurance has a net margin of 23.31% compared to Fidelis Insurance's net margin of 20.96%. RLI's return on equity of 17.97% beat Fidelis Insurance's return on equity.
Summary
Fidelis Insurance beats RLI on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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