Stock Research: Essent Group

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Essent Group

NYSE:ESNT BMG3198U1027
70
  • Value
    76
  • Growth
    37
  • Safety
    Safety
    27
  • Combined
    49
  • Sentiment
    78
  • 360° View
    360° View
    70
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Company Description

Essent Group Ltd. is a Bermuda-based holding company offering private mortgage insurance, reinsurance, and title insurance and settlement services to the housing finance industry. Its main businesses include mortgage insurance and reinsurance (primary and pool), title insurance, settlement services, and contract underwriting. It operates out of Bermuda through subsidiaries like Essent Reinsurance Ltd. and Essent Irish Intermediate Holdings Ltd. In the last fiscal year, the company had a market cap of $5649 million, NULL profits, NULL revenue, and 625 employees.

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Analysis

ANALYSIS: With an Obermatt 360° View of 70 (better than 70% compared with alternatives), overall professional sentiment and financial characteristics for the stock Essent Group are above average. The 360° View is based on consolidating four consolidated indicators, with half below and half above average for Essent Group. The consolidated Sentiment Rank has a good rank of 78, which means that professional investors are more optimistic about the stock than for 78% of alternative investment opportunities. It also rates well regarding its financing structure, with the consolidated Safety Rank at 76 or better than 76% of its peers when looking at the amount of its debt, its refinancing requirements, and its ability to service debt. But the stock is expensive and expects low growth. The consolidated Value Rank is only 27, meaning that the share price of Essent Group is on the high side, compared with indicators such as revenues, profits, and invested capital. The company exhibits below-average growth momentum when looking at financial metrics such as revenue, profit, invested capital growth,and stock returns, with its Growth Rank at 37. ...read more

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The higher the 360° View, the better the stock performed against its peers, considering all metrics. The 360° View represents an average of the other 5 ranks and is then scaled to a rank from 1 to 100. The shaded values are illustrative only.
Last update: 21-Aug-2025.

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Metrics Current 2024 2023 2022
Value
27 37 33 45
Growth
37 33 61 63
Safety
Safety
76 50 56 67
Sentiment
78 19 79 9
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70 15 77 47
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Metrics Current 2024 2023 2022
Analyst Opinions
47 51 79 92
Opinions Change
100 31 78 22
Pro Holdings
n/a 40 70 8
Market Pulse
9 7 16 1
Sentiment
78 19 79 9
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Metrics Current 2024 2023 2022
Value
27 37 33 45
Growth
37 33 61 63
Safety Safety
76 50 56 67
Combined
49 23 54 72
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Metrics Current 2024 2023 2022
Price vs. Sales (P/S)
36 47 42 55
Price vs. Earnings (P/E)
10 11 12 12
Price vs. Book (P/B)
50 47 42 45
Dividend Yield
31 43 41 44
Value
27 37 33 45
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Metrics Current 2024 2023 2022
Revenue Growth
14 21 60 6
Profit Growth
27 16 10 73
Capital Growth
80 89 71 81
Stock Returns
39 49 79 53
Growth
37 33 61 63
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Metrics Current 2024 2023 2022
Leverage
80 61 61 56
Refinancing
9 5 7 23
Liquidity
94 94 94 96
Safety Safety
76 50 56 67

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