Mercury General Corporation (MCY): Price and Financial Metrics
Mercury General Corporation (MCY)
Today's Latest Price: $53.38 USD
Updated Jan 22 6:40pm
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Ranked of 70 in Insurance - Property & Casualty
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MCY Stock Summary
- MCY's went public 30.85 years ago, making it older than 84.09% of listed US stocks we're tracking.
- MCY's price/sales ratio is 0.8; that's higher than the P/S ratio of just 19.75% of US stocks.
- The volatility of Mercury General Corp's share price is greater than that of merely 19.43% US stocks with at least 200 days of trading history.
- If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Mercury General Corp, a group of peers worth examining would be WERN, MRTN, YRD, NHC, and PTSI.
- Visit MCY's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.mercuryinsurance.com.
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MCY Price/Volume Stats
| Current price | $53.38 | 52-week high | $55.71 |
| Prev. close | $53.43 | 52-week low | $33.45 |
| Day low | $52.81 | Volume | 130,400 |
| Day high | $53.76 | Avg. volume | 225,521 |
| 50-day MA | $49.01 | Dividend yield | 4.74% |
| 200-day MA | $43.43 | Market Cap | 2.96B |
Mercury General Corporation (MCY) Company Bio
Mercury General Corporation writes personal automobile insurance, homeowners, commercial automobile, commercial property, mechanical breakdown, fire, and umbrella insurance. The company was founded in 1960 and is based in Los Angeles, California.
MCY Price Forecast Based on DCF Valuation
| Current Price | DCF Fair Value Target: | Forecasted Gain: |
| $53.38 | $179.27 | 236% |
We started the process of determining a valid price forecast for Mercury General Corp with a discounted cash flow analysis -- the results of which can be found in the table below. To summarize, we found that Mercury General Corp ranked in the 75th percentile in terms of potential gain offered. More precisely, our analysis suggests the stock is undervalued by approximately 237.5% on a DCF basis. In terms of the factors that were most noteworthy in this DCF analysis for MCY, they are:
- MCY's estimated cost of debt, based largely on its market capitalization and its interest coverage ratio, is 3%; for context, that number is higher than 28.25% of tickers in our DCF set.
- Mercury General Corp's interest coverage rate -- a measure of gross earnings relative to interest payments -- comes in at 17.42. This coverage rate is greater than that of 84.26% of stocks we're observing for the purpose of forecasting via discounted cash flows.
- Relative to other stocks in its sector (Financial Services), Mercury General Corp has a reliance on debt greater than only 24.48% of them.
| Terminal Growth Rate in Free Cash Flow | Return Relative to Current Share Price |
| 0% | 229% |
| 1% | 233% |
| 2% | 236% |
| 3% | 239% |
| 4% | 242% |
| 5% | 246% |
OXSQ, ESNT, RE, FAF, and ATAX can be thought of as valuation peers to MCY, in the sense that they are in the Financial Services sector and have a similar price forecast based on DCF valuation.
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