KMPR vs. AIZ, AFG, GNW, HMN, AIG, HIG, L, EG, CNA, and RNR
Should you be buying Kemper stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kemper include Assurant (AIZ), American Financial Group (AFG), Genworth Financial (GNW), Horace Mann Educators (HMN), American International Group (AIG), The Hartford Financial Services Group (HIG), Loews (L), Everest Group (EG), CNA Financial (CNA), and RenaissanceRe (RNR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Kemper vs.
Kemper (NYSE:KMPR) and Assurant (NYSE:AIZ) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, valuation, earnings and dividends.
Assurant has higher revenue and earnings than Kemper. Kemper is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Assurant, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kemper has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Assurant has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Kemper pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Assurant pays an annual dividend of $3.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Kemper pays out 26.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Assurant pays out 22.1% 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. Assurant has raised its dividend for 21 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Assurant had 18 more articles in the media than Kemper. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Assurant and 3 mentions for Kemper. Kemper's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Assurant's score of 0.59 indicating that Kemper is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Kemper has a net margin of 6.85% compared to Assurant's net margin of 6.40%. Assurant's return on equity of 17.25% beat Kemper's return on equity.
Assurant received 39 more outperform votes than Kemper when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.71% of users gave Kemper an outperform vote while only 57.45% of users gave Assurant an outperform vote.
Kemper currently has a consensus price target of $81.60, indicating a potential upside of 27.19%. Assurant has a consensus price target of $234.17, indicating a potential upside of 17.24%. Given Kemper's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Kemper is more favorable than Assurant.
86.2% of Kemper shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of Assurant shares are held by institutional investors. 6.2% of Kemper shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Assurant 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 Assurant on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:KMPR) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
