QualityDipStocks / Finance · Property-Casualty Insurers
Essent Group ESNT
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 4% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen, trading well below our fair value estimate.
- Fair value est.
- $84.50+26%
- Market Value
- $65.78price +2%
- Off 52-wk high
- −4%
- Risk vs market
- Lowbeta 0.00
5 bullish · 4 bearish See why
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $67.02
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$55.84−16.7%
- Market Valueavg paid since Aug 7$65.78−1.9%
- PriceFri Oct 30 close$67.02you are here
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$69.63+3.9%
- Fair value est.base case$84.50+26.1%
Fair value estimate
How the range is computed
Financials model (residual income). Same residual-income model as the base: cost of equity 9.5% ±1 point and return on equity 13.2% ±2 points. Bear = 10.5% and 11.2%; bull = 8.5% and 15.2%. A model estimate from public filings, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Price is below even the bear case.
What the price implies To be worth today’s price, ESNT would need a return on equity of about 10% a year; our estimate uses 13%.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 30 to Oct 30, 252 sessions). Beta = how much ESNT moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Has moved mostly independently of the market, but its own price swings are 1.9× the S&P 500’s (it moves on its own news).
- Beta vs S&P 500
- -0.00
- Volatility
- 25% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.00
- Correlation QQQ
- −0.13
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 5 of 5
ValuationOur residual-income fair value estimate is $84.50, 26% above the price.
Cash returnsShare count down 9.6% in a year: $611M of buybacks over 12 months.
ValuationP/E of 8.8× vs a 13.5× median for the 151 Finance companies we cover.
ProfitabilityNet margin of 51%, above the 21% median for the 142 Finance companies we cover.
Cash returnsDividend yield of 2.1% ($124M paid over 12 months, 18% of earnings).
Top bearish points 4 of 5
GrowthDiluted EPS grew 0.7% in the last fiscal year, below the 17% median for the 137 Finance companies we cover.
GrowthSales grew 4.3% over the last 12 months, below the 11% median for the 142 Finance companies we cover.
GrowthSales grew 8.0% a year over the last three fiscal years, below the 9.3% median for the 144 Finance companies we cover.
RiskReports earnings Nov 6 (consensus EPS $1.88): results can move the price sharply and reset Market Value.
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on Essent Group in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 1, 9:09 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Property-Casualty Insurers
All fundamentals
P/E 8.8 · ROE 12% · Sales +4%
Valuation
- P/E
- 8.8×Finance median 13.5×
- Price / FCF
- n/acash flow isn't a clean measure for a lender
- FCF yield
- n/acash flow isn't a clean measure for a lender
- EV / EBITDA
- n/anot meaningful for a lender
- Price / sales
- 4.55×
- Price / book
- 1.06×
- Market cap
- $6.0Bprice × diluted shares
- Enterprise value
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $1.3B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +4.3%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- +8.0%/yrfrom FY2022
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- $7.17
- EPS growth, last FY
- +0.7%
- Net income, 12 months
- $681M
- Net income growth
- −5%12 months vs before
Profitability
- Gross margin
- n/anot meaningful for a lender
- Operating margin
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Net margin
- 51.5%
- FCF margin
- 62.4%
- Return on equity
- 12%
- Return on invested capital
- n/anot meaningful for a lender
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $74M
- Total debt
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Net cash
- n/anot meaningful for a lender
- Debt / equity
- n/adeposits/float make debt/equity not comparable for a lender
- Interest coverage
- n/anot meaningful for a lender
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- $826M
- FCF growth, 12 months
- −5%
- Dividend yield
- 2.05%$124M paid
- Payout ratio
- 18%
- Buybacks, 12 months
- $611M10.1% of market cap
- Share count, 1 year
- −9.6%diluted shares vs a year ago
- Stock-based comp
- $19M
Trailing 12 months to Jun 30, 2026; balance sheet at Jun 30, 2026. From Essent Group’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
Valuation details
DCF $84.50 · MV $65.78
Financials model (residual income): book value $65.13 a share on Jun 30, 2026, plus the earnings above a 9.5% cost of equity. ROE 13.2%, the average of 11.6% for the trailing 12 months to Jun 30, 2026 and 14.8% over fiscal 2021–2025, on average common equity; payout 100% of earnings (dividends 18% + net buybacks 87%; capped at 100%), so book grows by the retained rest; the return above 9.5% fades halfway toward 9.5% over 10 years, then grows at 3% (terminal value). From the 10-Q filed Aug 7, 2026.
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 58 · 5 days +0.3%
The business
FCF $0.7B · Sales +14%
- Free cash flow, 12 months$0.7B
- Free-cash-flow yield11.3%
- Return on equity12%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+14%
Next report
Nov 6
- DateFri Nov 6, before the open
- Consensus EPS$1.88
- Year-ago EPS$1.67
- QuarterSep/2026
From Nasdaq’s earnings calendar. A report resets Market Value.
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.
ESNT is outside our quality screen
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