ESNT vs. TFG, PFG, GOCO, THG, MCG, FFX, PGR, ACIC, CNC, and AXS
Should you be buying Essentra stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Essentra include Tetragon Financial (TFG), Vanquis Banking Group (PFG), GoCo Group plc (GOCO.L) (GOCO), THG (THG), Mobico Group (MCG), Fairfx Group (FFX), Phoenix Global Resources (PGR), abrdn China Investment (ACIC), Concurrent Technologies (CNC), and Accsys Technologies (AXS). These companies are all part of the "insurance" industry.
Essentra vs.
Tetragon Financial (LON:TFG) and Essentra (LON:ESNT) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
Essentra has a consensus price target of GBX 206.67, suggesting a potential upside of 101.43%. Given Essentra's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Essentra is more favorable than Tetragon Financial.
3.2% of Tetragon Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 121.7% of Essentra shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.8% of Tetragon Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Essentra shares are owned by company 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.
Tetragon Financial has a beta of 0.46, suggesting that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Essentra has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Tetragon Financial pays an annual dividend of GBX 44 per share and has a dividend yield of 299.0%. Essentra pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Tetragon Financial pays out 2,822.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Essentra pays out 329.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Tetragon Financial has a net margin of 57.23% compared to Essentra's net margin of 1.13%. Tetragon Financial's return on equity of 4.68% beat Essentra's return on equity.
In the previous week, Essentra had 7 more articles in the media than Tetragon Financial. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Essentra and 2 mentions for Tetragon Financial. Essentra's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Tetragon Financial's score of 0.67 indicating that Essentra is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Tetragon Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Essentra. Tetragon Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Essentra, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Essentra received 339 more outperform votes than Tetragon Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 77.42% of users gave Tetragon Financial an outperform vote while only 72.89% of users gave Essentra an outperform vote.
Summary
Essentra beats Tetragon Financial on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:ESNT) was last updated on 3/31/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
