| Company name | Mercury General Corporation |
| Stock ticker | MCY |
| Live stock price | [stckqut]MCY[/stckqut] |
| P/E compared to competitors | Fair |
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
| Employee productivity | Poor |
| Sales growth | Poor |
| EPS growth | Poor |
| P/E growth | Good |
| EBIT growth | Poor |
ANALYSIS
| Confident Investor Rating | Poor |
| Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $21.05 |
| Target stock price (averages with growth) | $21.04 |
| Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $19.58 |
| Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $26.06 |
The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=mcy
Mercury General Corporation (Mercury General) is an insurance holding company. The Company is a parent of Mercury Casualty Company (MCC), which is an automobile insurer. Including MCC, Mercury General has 21 subsidiaries. Mercury General, along with its subsidiaries, is primarily engaged in writing personal automobile insurance through 13 insurance subsidiaries (the Insurance Companies) in a number of states, principally California. The Company also writes homeowners, commercial automobile and property, mechanical breakdown, fire, and umbrella insurance. The Company offers collision, property damage liability, bodily injury (BI) liability, comprehensive, personal injury protection (PIP), underinsured and uninsured motorist, and other hazards to the automobile policyholders. The Company has reinsurance through the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Trust Fund (FHCF).
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I do not think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in this stock.
If you would like to understand how to evaluate companies like I do on this site, please read my book, The Confident Investor.