HUW vs. PGH, FBH, ADM, RSA, HSX, DLG, HSTG, BRSC, BGFD, and FEML
Should you be buying Helios Underwriting stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Helios Underwriting include Personal Group (PGH), FBD (FBH), Admiral Group (ADM), RSA Insurance Group (RSA), Hiscox (HSX), Direct Line Insurance Group (DLG), Hastings Group Holdings plc (HSTG.L) (HSTG), BlackRock Smaller Companies (BRSC), The Baillie Gifford Japan Trust (BGFD), and Fidelity Emerging Markets (FEML).
Helios Underwriting vs.
Personal Group (LON:PGH) and Helios Underwriting (LON:HUW) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
Personal Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 209, suggesting a potential upside of 12.92%. Helios Underwriting has a consensus target price of GBX 239, suggesting a potential downside of 10.82%. Given Personal Group's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Personal Group is more favorable than Helios Underwriting.
Helios Underwriting has higher revenue and earnings than Personal Group. Helios Underwriting is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Personal Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
40.3% of Personal Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.3% of Helios Underwriting shares are owned by institutional investors. 43.9% of Personal Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 57.3% of Helios Underwriting shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Personal Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. Helios Underwriting pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Personal Group pays out 8,571.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Helios Underwriting pays out 2,608.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Personal Group has a net margin of 8.71% compared to Helios Underwriting's net margin of 6.96%. Helios Underwriting's return on equity of 13.74% beat Personal Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Personal Group and Personal Group both had 1 articles in the media. Personal Group's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Helios Underwriting's score of 0.03 indicating that Personal Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Personal Group has a beta of 0.46, meaning that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Helios Underwriting has a beta of 0.14, meaning that its share price is 86% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Helios Underwriting received 27 more outperform votes than Personal Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.28% of users gave Helios Underwriting an outperform vote while only 55.40% of users gave Personal Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Personal Group beats Helios Underwriting on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:HUW) was last updated on 12/24/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
