SKWD vs. HMN, LMND, SAFT, HG, EIG, HCI, TCPC, ROOT, AMSF, and PLMR
Should you be buying Skyward Specialty Insurance Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Skyward Specialty Insurance Group include Horace Mann Educators (HMN), Lemonade (LMND), Safety Insurance Group (SAFT), Hamilton Insurance Group (HG), Employers (EIG), HCI Group (HCI), BlackRock TCP Capital (TCPC), Root (ROOT), AMERISAFE (AMSF), and Palomar (PLMR). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Skyward Specialty Insurance Group (NASDAQ:SKWD) and Horace Mann Educators (NYSE:HMN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and risk.
Skyward Specialty Insurance Group currently has a consensus price target of $42.50, indicating a potential upside of 16.34%. Horace Mann Educators has a consensus price target of $38.50, indicating a potential upside of 10.47%. Given Skyward Specialty Insurance Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Skyward Specialty Insurance Group is more favorable than Horace Mann Educators.
Skyward Specialty Insurance Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Horace Mann Educators. Skyward Specialty Insurance Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Horace Mann Educators, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Skyward Specialty Insurance Group has a net margin of 11.16% compared to Horace Mann Educators' net margin of 4.26%. Skyward Specialty Insurance Group's return on equity of 15.98% beat Horace Mann Educators' return on equity.
Skyward Specialty Insurance Group has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Horace Mann Educators has a beta of 0.26, meaning that its share price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Horace Mann Educators received 156 more outperform votes than Skyward Specialty Insurance Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.10% of users gave Skyward Specialty Insurance Group an outperform vote while only 50.84% of users gave Horace Mann Educators an outperform vote.
94.8% of Skyward Specialty Insurance Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.3% of Horace Mann Educators shares are held by institutional investors. 8.0% of Skyward Specialty Insurance Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of Horace Mann Educators shares are held 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.
In the previous week, Skyward Specialty Insurance Group had 11 more articles in the media than Horace Mann Educators. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Skyward Specialty Insurance Group and 3 mentions for Horace Mann Educators. Horace Mann Educators' average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat Skyward Specialty Insurance Group's score of 0.27 indicating that Horace Mann Educators is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Skyward Specialty Insurance Group beats Horace Mann Educators on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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