HMN vs. KMPR, GNW, AIG, HIG, L, AIZ, AFG, THG, SIGI, and ESGR
Should you be buying Horace Mann Educators stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Horace Mann Educators include Kemper (KMPR), Genworth Financial (GNW), American International Group (AIG), The Hartford Financial Services Group (HIG), Loews (L), Assurant (AIZ), American Financial Group (AFG), The Hanover Insurance Group (THG), Selective Insurance Group (SIGI), and Enstar Group (ESGR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Horace Mann Educators vs.
Kemper (NYSE:KMPR) and Horace Mann Educators (NYSE:HMN) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Kemper has a net margin of 6.85% compared to Horace Mann Educators' net margin of 6.44%. Kemper's return on equity of 14.11% beat Horace Mann Educators' return on equity.
Kemper has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Horace Mann Educators has a beta of 0.25, indicating that its share price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Kemper has higher revenue and earnings than Horace Mann Educators. Kemper 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.
Kemper received 74 more outperform votes than Horace Mann Educators when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.71% of users gave Kemper an outperform vote while only 50.14% of users gave Horace Mann Educators an outperform vote.
Kemper pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Horace Mann Educators pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Kemper pays out 26.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Horace Mann Educators pays out 56.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Horace Mann Educators has increased its dividend for 17 consecutive years. Horace Mann Educators is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Kemper presently has a consensus price target of $81.60, indicating a potential upside of 18.70%. Horace Mann Educators has a consensus price target of $43.67, indicating a potential upside of 1.14%. Given Kemper's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Kemper is more favorable than Horace Mann Educators.
In the previous week, Kemper had 2 more articles in the media than Horace Mann Educators. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Kemper and 4 mentions for Horace Mann Educators. Horace Mann Educators' average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat Kemper's score of 0.79 indicating that Horace Mann Educators is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
86.2% of Kemper shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.3% of Horace Mann Educators shares are held by institutional investors. 6.2% of Kemper shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of Horace Mann Educators shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Kemper beats Horace Mann Educators on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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