VERY vs. CIA, GWGH, NSEC, AAME, IHC, MET, MFC, PRU, SLF, and PUK
Should you be buying Vericity stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vericity include Citizens (CIA), GWG (GWGH), The National Security Group (NSEC), Atlantic American (AAME), Independence (IHC), MetLife (MET), Manulife Financial (MFC), Prudential Financial (PRU), Sun Life Financial (SLF), and Prudential (PUK). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Vericity (NASDAQ:VERY) and Citizens (NYSE:CIA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment and valuation.
Vericity has a beta of 0.14, meaning that its stock price is 86% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Citizens has a beta of 0.17, meaning that its stock price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Citizens received 202 more outperform votes than Vericity when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.50% of users gave Vericity an outperform vote while only 59.45% of users gave Citizens an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Vericity and Vericity both had 5 articles in the media. Vericity's average media sentiment score of -0.17 beat Citizens' score of -0.47 indicating that Vericity is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Citizens has a net margin of 9.94% compared to Vericity's net margin of -7.59%. Citizens' return on equity of 14.46% beat Vericity's return on equity.
1.9% of Vericity shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.7% of Citizens shares are held by institutional investors. 10.4% of Vericity shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Citizens shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Citizens has higher revenue and earnings than Vericity. Vericity is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Citizens, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Citizens beats Vericity on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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