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Essent Group

NYQ:ESNT BMG3198U1027
56
  • Value
    45
  • Growth
    31
  • Safety
    Safety
    65
  • Combined
    33
  • Sentiment
    77
  • 360° View
    360° View
    56
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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: With an Obermatt 360° View of 48 (better than 48% compared with alternatives), overall professional sentiment and financial characteristics for the stock Essent Group are below the industry 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 88, which means that professional investors are more optimistic about the stock than for 88% of alternative investment opportunities. It also rates well regarding its financing structure, with the consolidated Safety Rank at 70 or better than 70% 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 48, 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 29. ...read more

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Strongest Rank Capital Growth
Weakest Rank Pro Holdings
Country Bermuda
Industry Property & Casualty Insurance
Size Medium
Website essentgroup.com
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Last update: 26-May-2026.

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Metrics Current 2025 2024 2023
Value
45 37 33 45
Growth
31 33 61 63
Safety
Safety
65 50 56 67
Sentiment
77 19 79 9
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56 15 77 47
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Metrics Current 2025 2024 2023
Analyst Opinions
35 51 79 92
Opinions Change
50 31 78 22
Pro Holdings
n/a 40 70 8
Market Pulse
63 7 16 1
Sentiment
77 19 79 9
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Metrics Current 2025 2024 2023
Value
45 37 33 45
Growth
31 33 61 63
Safety Safety
65 50 56 67
Combined
33 23 54 72
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Metrics Current 2025 2024 2023
Price vs. Sales (P/S)
22 11 12 12
Price vs. Earnings (P/E)
49 47 42 55
Price vs. Book (P/B)
74 47 42 45
Dividend Yield
53 43 41 44
Value
45 37 33 45
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Metrics Current 2025 2024 2023
Revenue Growth
75 21 60 6
Profit Growth
55 16 10 73
Capital Growth
1 89 71 81
Stock Returns
33 49 79 53
Growth
31 33 61 63
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Metrics Current 2025 2024 2023
Leverage
61 61 61 56
Refinancing
57 5 7 23
Liquidity
73 94 94 96
Safety Safety
65 50 56 67

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