HSX vs. ADM, RSA, DLG, HSTG, HUW, PGH, FBH, LGEN, AV, and AIBG
Should you be buying Hiscox stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hiscox include Admiral Group (ADM), RSA Insurance Group (RSA), Direct Line Insurance Group (DLG), Hastings Group Holdings plc (HSTG.L) (HSTG), Helios Underwriting (HUW), Personal Group (PGH), FBD (FBH), Legal & General Group (LGEN), Aviva (AV), and AIB Group (AIBG).
Hiscox vs.
Admiral Group (LON:ADM) and Hiscox (LON:HSX) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, valuation, risk and analyst recommendations.
Hiscox has higher revenue and earnings than Admiral Group. Hiscox is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Admiral Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Admiral Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 87 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Hiscox pays an annual dividend of GBX 30 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Admiral Group pays out 66.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hiscox pays out 18.4% 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.
Hiscox has a consensus price target of GBX 1,237.50, suggesting a potential upside of 5.68%. Given Hiscox's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Hiscox is more favorable than Admiral Group.
Admiral Group has a beta of 0.18, suggesting that its share price is 82% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hiscox has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Admiral Group had 5 more articles in the media than Hiscox. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Admiral Group and 1 mentions for Hiscox. Hiscox's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Admiral Group's score of 0.23 indicating that Hiscox is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
60.3% of Admiral Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.2% of Hiscox shares are held by institutional investors. 18.3% of Admiral Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Hiscox shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Hiscox received 92 more outperform votes than Admiral Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 47.70% of users gave Hiscox an outperform vote while only 37.74% of users gave Admiral Group an outperform vote.
Hiscox has a net margin of 19.07% compared to Admiral Group's net margin of 8.82%. Admiral Group's return on equity of 38.14% beat Hiscox's return on equity.
Summary
Hiscox beats Admiral Group on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:HSX) was last updated on 4/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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