Ranked #45 of 224 · scores higher than 79% of peers
Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the valuation score
28 peers with a valuation score of 70–79, including ESNT · Click a bar to see the companies
Why valuation scores 74?
Weighted metrics compared with all Banks & Insurance companies.
Mainly thanks to its earnings yield and book yield, which are stronger than most Banks & Insurance peers.
▲a lower price relative to book value (P/B): stronger than 64% of peers. Book yield: 92.3% vs peer median 79.5%
▲higher earnings for the price paid: stronger than 73% of peers. Earnings yield: 11.1% vs peer median 7.9%
Metric by metric
Position: dot = ESNT, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.
Metric
ESNT
Peer median
Better than
Position among peers
Weight
Earnings yieldHigher is better · 229 reported
10.5%
7.7%
76%
60%
EBITDA yieldHigher is better · 58 reported
14.6%
10.7%
67%
Context only
Free cash flow yieldHigher is better · 130 reported
13.6%
9.5%
73%
Context only
Book yieldHigher is better · 224 reported
93.1%
76.0%
71%
40%
Metrics with no weight are context only: for banks, brokers and insurers, free cash flow, EBITDA, gross margin and current ratio mostly reflect trading and funding flows, not the health of the business.
Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score
