ALHC vs. GL, BNRE, VOYA, JXN, ESNT, ACT, BWIN, FG, OSCR, and PLMR
Should you be buying Alignment Healthcare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alignment Healthcare include Globe Life (GL), Brookfield Reinsurance (BNRE), Voya Financial (VOYA), Jackson Financial (JXN), Essent Group (ESNT), Enact (ACT), Baldwin Insurance Group (BWIN), F&G Annuities & Life (FG), Oscar Health (OSCR), and Palomar (PLMR). These companies are all part of the "insurance" industry.
Alignment Healthcare vs. Its Competitors
Globe Life (NYSE:GL) and Alignment Healthcare (NASDAQ:ALHC) are both insurance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability and risk.
Globe Life has a net margin of 18.33% compared to Alignment Healthcare's net margin of -3.02%. Globe Life's return on equity of 21.44% beat Alignment Healthcare's return on equity.
81.6% of Globe Life shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.2% of Alignment Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Globe Life shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.0% of Alignment Healthcare shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Globe Life has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alignment Healthcare has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Globe Life currently has a consensus target price of $143.82, indicating a potential upside of 17.69%. Alignment Healthcare has a consensus target price of $17.17, indicating a potential upside of 38.33%. Given Alignment Healthcare's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Alignment Healthcare is more favorable than Globe Life.
Globe Life has higher revenue and earnings than Alignment Healthcare. Alignment Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Globe Life, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Globe Life had 26 more articles in the media than Alignment Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for Globe Life and 8 mentions for Alignment Healthcare. Globe Life's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Alignment Healthcare's score of 0.59 indicating that Globe Life is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Globe Life beats Alignment Healthcare on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:ALHC) was last updated on 7/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
