Enact Holdings, Inc. vs BROWN & BROWN, INC., two Insurance Brokers stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where ACT and BRO diverge most: on revenue growth, ACT reads +2.0% and BRO reads +34.3%; on debt / equity, ACT reads 0.14 and BRO reads 0.65. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. What ACT's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (earnings-power basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | ACT | BRO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $47.33 | $70.38 |
| Market cap | $6.6B | $23.5B |
| Sector | Financial Services | Financial Services |
| Stage | Mature | Growth |
| P/E | 10.2 | 22.5 |
| P/B | 1.24 | 1.86 |
| P/S | 5.32 | 3.46 |
| EV/EBITDA | — | 452.4 |
| Revenue growth | +2.0% | +34.3% |
| Net margin | 54.5% | 17.8% |
| Return on equity | 12.7% | 9.6% |
| Return on assets | 9.7% | 4.0% |
| Dividend yield | 1.7% | 0.9% |
| Debt / equity | 0.14 | 0.65 |
| Current ratio | — | 1.13 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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