HTH vs. RLI, AXS, SIGI, FAF, THG, WTM, AGO, MCY, STC, and SAFT
Should you be buying Hilltop stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hilltop include RLI (RLI), AXIS Capital (AXS), Selective Insurance Group (SIGI), First American Financial (FAF), The Hanover Insurance Group (THG), White Mountains Insurance Group (WTM), Assured Guaranty (AGO), Mercury General (MCY), Stewart Information Services (STC), and Safety Insurance Group (SAFT). These companies are all part of the "property & casualty insurance" industry.
Hilltop (NYSE:HTH) and RLI (NYSE:RLI) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability and dividends.
In the previous week, RLI had 4 more articles in the media than Hilltop. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for RLI and 3 mentions for Hilltop. RLI's average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat Hilltop's score of -0.13 indicating that RLI is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
57.1% of Hilltop shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.9% of RLI shares are held by institutional investors. 28.9% of Hilltop shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.1% of RLI shares are held by company 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.
RLI has a net margin of 20.96% compared to Hilltop's net margin of 6.95%. RLI's return on equity of 17.24% beat Hilltop's return on equity.
RLI received 18 more outperform votes than Hilltop when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.53% of users gave RLI an outperform vote while only 53.76% of users gave Hilltop an outperform vote.
Hilltop pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. RLI pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Hilltop pays out 39.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. RLI pays out 14.9% 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.
RLI has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Hilltop. Hilltop is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RLI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hilltop presently has a consensus target price of $32.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.23%. RLI has a consensus target price of $163.25, suggesting a potential upside of 14.56%. Given RLI's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe RLI is more favorable than Hilltop.
Hilltop has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RLI has a beta of 0.37, suggesting that its stock price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
RLI beats Hilltop on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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