HRTG vs. TCPC, AMSF, ROOT, PRA, TIPT, UFCS, UVE, GLRE, HIPO, and DGICA
Should you be buying Heritage Insurance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Heritage Insurance include BlackRock TCP Capital (TCPC), AMERISAFE (AMSF), Root (ROOT), ProAssurance (PRA), Tiptree (TIPT), United Fire Group (UFCS), Universal Insurance (UVE), Greenlight Capital Re (GLRE), Hippo (HIPO), and Donegal Group (DGICA). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
BlackRock TCP Capital (NASDAQ:TCPC) and Heritage Insurance (NYSE:HRTG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, risk, dividends, media sentiment and earnings.
BlackRock TCP Capital has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Heritage Insurance has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Heritage Insurance has higher revenue and earnings than BlackRock TCP Capital. Heritage Insurance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BlackRock TCP Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
59.0% of Heritage Insurance shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of BlackRock TCP Capital shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 14.0% of Heritage Insurance 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.
BlackRock TCP Capital has a net margin of 9.69% compared to BlackRock TCP Capital's net margin of 6.07%. BlackRock TCP Capital's return on equity of 24.02% beat Heritage Insurance's return on equity.
BlackRock TCP Capital currently has a consensus target price of $10.67, indicating a potential downside of 3.38%. Heritage Insurance has a consensus target price of $9.00, indicating a potential upside of 6.26%. Given BlackRock TCP Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Heritage Insurance is more favorable than BlackRock TCP Capital.
In the previous week, BlackRock TCP Capital had 5 more articles in the media than Heritage Insurance. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for BlackRock TCP Capital and 5 mentions for Heritage Insurance. BlackRock TCP Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Heritage Insurance's score of 0.85 indicating that Heritage Insurance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BlackRock TCP Capital received 91 more outperform votes than Heritage Insurance when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.73% of users gave Heritage Insurance an outperform vote while only 64.80% of users gave BlackRock TCP Capital an outperform vote.
Summary
Heritage Insurance beats BlackRock TCP Capital on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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