Hamilton Insurance Group (NYSE:HG) vs. Corebridge Financial (NYSE:CRBG) Head-To-Head Comparison

Corebridge Financial (NYSE:CRBG) and Hamilton Insurance Group (NYSE:HG) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

98.3% of Corebridge Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.2% of Hamilton Insurance Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Corebridge Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.5% of Hamilton Insurance Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Risk and Volatility

Corebridge Financial has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hamilton Insurance Group has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Corebridge Financial and Hamilton Insurance Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Corebridge Financial	-1.73%	18.92%	0.63%
Hamilton Insurance Group	19.85%	19.43%	5.73%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Corebridge Financial and Hamilton Insurance Group, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Corebridge Financial	1	5	7	0	2.46
Hamilton Insurance Group	0	4	5	0	2.56

Corebridge Financial currently has a consensus price target of $37.40, indicating a potential upside of 47.42%. Hamilton Insurance Group has a consensus price target of $32.29, indicating a potential upside of 12.62%. Given Corebridge Financial’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Corebridge Financial is more favorable than Hamilton Insurance Group.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Corebridge Financial and Hamilton Insurance Group”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Corebridge Financial	$20.46 billion	0.60	-$366.00 million	($0.53)	-47.87
Hamilton Insurance Group	$2.91 billion	0.98	$576.67 million	$5.57	5.15

Hamilton Insurance Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Corebridge Financial. Corebridge Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hamilton Insurance Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Hamilton Insurance Group beats Corebridge Financial on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Corebridge Financial

Corebridge Financial, Inc. provides retirement solutions and insurance products in the United States. The company operates through Individual Retirement, Group Retirement, Life Insurance, and Institutional Markets segments. The Individual Retirement segment provides fixed annuities, fixed index annuities, variable annuities, and retail mutual funds. The Group Retirement segment offers record-keeping services, plan administration and compliance services, and financial planning and advisory solutions to employer-defined contribution plans and their participants, as well as proprietary and non-proprietary annuities, advisory services, and brokerage products. The Life Insurance segment offers term life and universal life insurance in the United States, as well as issues individual life, whole life, and group life insurance in the United Kingdom; and distributes medical insurance in Ireland. The Institutional Markets segment provides stable value wraps, structured settlement and pension risk transfer annuities, corporate and bank owned life insurance, private placement variable universal life and annuities products, and guaranteed investment contracts. The company was formerly known as SAFG Retirement Services, Inc. Corebridge Financial, Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. The company operates as a subsidiary of American International Group, Inc.

About Hamilton Insurance Group

Hamilton Insurance Group, Ltd., through its subsidiaries, provides underwriting specialty insurance and reinsurance risks in Bermuda and internationally. The company operates Hamilton Global Specialty, Hamilton Select, and Hamilton Re underwriting platforms. The company offers casualty reinsurance products, such as commercial motor, general liability, healthcare, multiline, personal motor, professional liability, umbrella and excess casualty, and worker's compensation and employer's liability reinsurance; property reinsurance and insurance; and specialty reinsurance solutions, including accident and health, aviation and space, crisis management, mortgage, financial lines, marine and energy, and multiline specialty. In addition, it offers accident and health, cyber, energy, environmental, financial lines, fine art and specie, kidnap and ransom, mergers and acquisitions, marine and energy liability, political risk and violence, professional liability, property binders, property direct and facultative, professional lines, space, upstream energy, excess casualty, war and terrorism, allied medical, management liability, medical professionals, general liability, products liability and contractors, and small business casualty insurance plans, as well as surety and treaty reinsurance products. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Pembroke, Bermuda.