Essent Group Ltd. (ESNT) Stock Analysis
A live, multi-source view of Essent Group Ltd. (ESNT): real-time price, technical indicators, Wall Street analyst consensus, recent news sentiment and social buzz — aggregated into one place so you can size up the stock at a glance.
About Essent Group Ltd.
Essent Group Ltd., through its subsidiaries, provides private mortgage insurance and reinsurance, and title insurance and settlement services to mortgage lenders, borrowers, and investors in the United States. It operates through two segments, Mortgage Insurance and Reinsurance. The company's mortgage insurance products include primary, pool, and master policy. It also provides information technology maintenance and development services; customer support-related services; underwriting consulting services to third-party reinsurers; and contract underwriting services, as well as credit risk management products. In addition, the company offers title insurance and settlement services; and title insurance underwriting services. It serves the originators of residential mortgage loans, such as regulated depository institutions, mortgage banks, credit unions, and other lenders. Essent Group Ltd. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda.
Sector: Financial Services · Industry: Insurance - Specialty · Bermuda · 518 employees · ir.essentgroup.com
Key statistics · as of 2026-09-05
As of 2026-09-05, Essent Group Ltd. (ESNT) had a market capitalization of $6.22B, a trailing P/E of 9.7 (forward 8.8), a dividend yield of 2.01% and a beta of 0.76; the shares traded in a 52-week range of $55.34 – $70.37 (9.1% over the year).
- Market cap
- $6.22B
- Enterprise value
- $6.02B
- Trailing P/E
- 9.7
- Forward P/E
- 8.8
- Price / book
- 1.10
- EPS (trailing)
- $7.13
- EPS (forward)
- $7.86
- Dividend yield
- 2.01%
- Payout ratio
- 18.4%
- Ex-dividend date
- 2026-08-31
- 52-week range
- $55.34 – $70.37
- 52-week change
- 9.1%
- Beta
- 0.76
- Average volume
- 695,812
- Shares outstanding
- 89.9M
- Short % of float
- 4.01%
- Profit margin
- 51.5%
Fundamental figures are recorded once every few days, dated above; they are not live and can differ from the interactive tiles.
Last universe scan · 2026-09-08
In RapidTradeView’s 2026-09-08 scan of the US universe, Essent Group Ltd. (ESNT) last closed at $69.18 (the last completed close before that scan).
Technicals at the scan: RSI 57 (neutral territory), price +0.6% versus its 20-day average, 20-day versus 50-day average spread +2.9%, MACD histogram -0.13.
Sentiment inputs: 100% of recent Finnhub-scored headlines read bullish; analyst consensus score 64/100.
Next scheduled company event: in 2 days from the scan date.
Scan values are recorded once per trading day and are not live quotes; the interactive tiles above update in real time.
Smart Money · last 90 days
Members of Congress disclosed 0 buys and 0 sells of ESNT; corporate insiders filed 0 buys and 1 sell (1 filer, latest disclosure 2026-07-20). Filings arrive days to weeks after the trade and are not a live signal. Most active filers: Mary Lourdes Gibbons (0B/1S). Who is trading what
RapidTradeView pick record
ESNT has not appeared in the daily picks yet. Full scoreboard
What this page covers
RapidTradeView pulls Essent Group Ltd. (ESNT) data from multiple independent sources and combines it into a single dashboard. Below the summary you’ll find live, interactive tiles for each of the following:
- Price & chart — real-time quote with pre/post-market moves and a line or candlestick chart.
- Technical indicators — RSI, MACD, moving averages, Bollinger Bands, volume and support/resistance, distilled into one overall signal.
- Analyst consensus — the buy/hold/sell breakdown and price targets published by Wall Street analysts.
- News sentiment — recent headlines, each scored for tone so the prevailing narrative is obvious.
- Earnings — current EPS, year-over-year change and the next scheduled earnings date.
- Social buzz — Reddit mention volume and StockTwits sentiment for the retail-trader angle.
How to read the signals
No single indicator tells the whole story. A bullish technical reading paired with a cautious analyst consensus, or strong social buzz against weak earnings, is exactly the kind of tension this view is built to surface. RapidTradeView’s signals are generated by deterministic, statistical models — they describe what the data is doing, they are not personalised recommendations to buy or sell ESNT.
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