ESNT Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Essent Group Ltd. Common Shares | NYSE:ESNT)

Essent Group Ltd serves the housing finance industry by providing private mortgage insurance, reinsurance, risk management products, title insurance, and settlement services to mortgage lenders, borrowers, and investors to support homeownership. It provides credit protection to lenders and mortgage investors by covering a portion of the unpaid principal balance of a mortgage and certain related expenses in the event of a default. By providing capital to mitigate mortgage credit risk, the company allows lenders to make additional mortgage financing available to prospective homeowners.

Essent Group Ltd. Common Shares trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol ESNT.

As of August 21, 2026, ESNT stock price declined to $68.07 with 429,523 million shares trading.

ESNT has a beta of 0.29, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. ESNT has a correlation of 0.03 to the broad based SPY ETF.

ESNT has a market cap of $6.27 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Essent Group Ltd. Common Shares reported $363 million in Revenue and $2.08 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $27 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.30.

In the last 3 years, ESNT traded as high as $70.37 and as low as $45.63.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that ESNT belongs to (by Net Assets): IJH, VTI, AVUV, IWM, VB.

ESNT has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +11.3%, while SPY returned +21.2%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in ESNT shares. However, ESNT has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +10.3% and +3.9%, while SPY returned +3.6% and -0.4%, respectively. This indicates ESNT has been having a stronger performance recently.

ESNT support price is $67.69 and resistance is $69.38 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that ESNT shares will trade within this expected range on the day.