RLI vs. AXS, SIGI, THG, WTM, MCY, CNA, CINF, WRB, ESGR, and KNSL
Should you be buying RLI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RLI include AXIS Capital (AXS), Selective Insurance Group (SIGI), 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 Kinsale Capital Group (KNSL). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
RLI (NYSE:RLI) and AXIS Capital (NYSE:AXS) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, profitability and analyst recommendations.
AXIS Capital received 100 more outperform votes than RLI when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.53% of users gave RLI an outperform vote while only 54.29% of users gave AXIS Capital an outperform vote.
77.9% of RLI shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.4% of AXIS Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 5.1% of RLI shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of AXIS Capital shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
RLI presently has a consensus target price of $163.25, indicating a potential upside of 10.75%. AXIS Capital has a consensus target price of $68.33, indicating a potential downside of 3.28%. Given RLI's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe RLI is more favorable than AXIS Capital.
AXIS Capital has higher revenue and earnings than RLI. AXIS Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RLI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
RLI pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. AXIS Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. RLI pays out 14.9% 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.
RLI has a net margin of 20.96% compared to AXIS Capital's net margin of 10.34%. AXIS Capital's return on equity of 19.11% beat RLI's return on equity.
RLI has a beta of 0.37, suggesting that its stock price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AXIS Capital has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, AXIS Capital had 2 more articles in the media than RLI. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for AXIS Capital and 15 mentions for RLI. RLI's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat AXIS Capital's score of 0.98 indicating that RLI is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
RLI beats AXIS Capital on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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