Reviewing SelectQuote (NYSE:SLQT) & NN Group (OTCMKTS:NNGRY)

SelectQuote (NYSE:SLQT) and NN Group (OTCMKTS:NNGRY) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, risk and earnings.

Volatility and Risk

SelectQuote has a beta of 1.66, indicating that its share price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NN Group has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

34.6% of SelectQuote shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.0% of NN Group shares are held by institutional investors. 13.1% of SelectQuote shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares SelectQuote and NN Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
SelectQuote	3.84%	19.70%	5.33%
NN Group	N/A	N/A	N/A

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for SelectQuote and NN Group, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
SelectQuote	2	1	0	1	2.00
NN Group	0	1	2	0	2.67

SelectQuote presently has a consensus target price of $3.00, suggesting a potential upside of 473.18%. Given SelectQuote’s higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe SelectQuote is more favorable than NN Group.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares SelectQuote and NN Group”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
SelectQuote	$1.62 billion	0.06	$47.58 million	($0.08)	-6.54
NN Group	$13.03 billion	1.80	$1.34 billion	N/A	N/A

NN Group has higher revenue and earnings than SelectQuote.

Summary

SelectQuote beats NN Group on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About SelectQuote

SelectQuote, Inc. operates a technology-enabled, direct-to-consumer distribution platform that sells a range of insurance products and healthcare services in the United States. The company operates through three segments: Senior; Life; and Auto & Home. It distributes senior health policies, such as medicare advantage, medicare supplement, medicare part D, and other ancillary senior health insurance related products, including prescription drugs, dental, vision, and hearing plans; life insurance products, such as term life, final expense, and other ancillary products, including critical illness, accidental death, and juvenile insurance; homeowners, auto, dwelling fire, and other ancillary insurance products; and non-commercial auto and home property, and casualty policies. The company also provides SelectRx, an accredited patient-centered pharmacy home pharmacy, which offers essential prescription medications, OTC medications, customized medication packaging, medication therapy management, and long-term pharmacy care; and population health that helps members understand the benefits available under their health plans, and contracts with insurance carriers. SelectQuote, Inc. was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas.

About NN Group

NN Group N.V., a financial services company, provides life and non-life insurance products in the Netherlands and internationally. The company operates through Netherlands Life, Netherlands Non-life, Insurance Europe, Japan Life, Banking, and Other segments. It offers Life insurance products, such as group and individual pension products, retail life insurance, and SME life insurance products; and non-life insurance products, including motor, fire, liability, transport, travel, health, property and casualty, and disability and accident insurance products. The company also provides banking services, including mortgage loans, bank annuities, consumer savings, and retail savings and investment products; reinsurance services; and retirement products and services. It offers its products to individuals, small and medium-sized enterprises, and Corporates customers directly through tied agents, agents/ brokers, platform insurance, and direct channels. The company was formerly known as ING Insurance Topholding N.V. and changed its name to NN Group N.V. in March 2014. NN Group N.V. was founded in 1845 and is headquartered in the Hague, the Netherlands.