HALL vs. BRK.B, PGR, TRV, ALL, ACGL, WRB, MKL, CINF, ERIE, and FNF
Should you be buying Hallmark Financial Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hallmark Financial Services include Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B), Progressive (PGR), Travelers Companies (TRV), Allstate (ALL), Arch Capital Group (ACGL), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Markel Group (MKL), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), Erie Indemnity (ERIE), and Fidelity National Financial (FNF). These companies are all part of the "property & casualty insurance" industry.
Hallmark Financial Services vs.
Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.B) and Hallmark Financial Services (NASDAQ:HALL) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Berkshire Hathaway has higher revenue and earnings than Hallmark Financial Services.
Berkshire Hathaway has a net margin of 28.89% compared to Hallmark Financial Services' net margin of 0.00%. Berkshire Hathaway's return on equity of 6.94% beat Hallmark Financial Services' return on equity.
39.3% of Berkshire Hathaway shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.6% of Hallmark Financial Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.1% of Berkshire Hathaway shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 28.1% of Hallmark Financial Services shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Berkshire Hathaway currently has a consensus price target of $520.00, indicating a potential downside of 1.15%. Given Berkshire Hathaway's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Berkshire Hathaway is more favorable than Hallmark Financial Services.
Berkshire Hathaway has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hallmark Financial Services has a beta of -8.57, indicating that its stock price is 957% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Berkshire Hathaway had 26 more articles in the media than Hallmark Financial Services. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Berkshire Hathaway and 1 mentions for Hallmark Financial Services. Hallmark Financial Services' average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Berkshire Hathaway's score of 0.40 indicating that Hallmark Financial Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Berkshire Hathaway received 65 more outperform votes than Hallmark Financial Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.58% of users gave Berkshire Hathaway an outperform vote while only 40.79% of users gave Hallmark Financial Services an outperform vote.
Summary
Berkshire Hathaway beats Hallmark Financial Services on 14 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:HALL) was last updated on 3/29/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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