MCY Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Mercury General | NYSE:MCY)

Mercury General Corp is an insurance holding company. It is engaged in writing personal automobile insurance and provides related property and casualty insurance products. The company offers the following types of automobile coverage: collision, property damage, bodily injury (BI), comprehensive, personal injury protection (PIP), underinsured and uninsured motorist, and other hazards. Additionally, it offers the following types of homeowners coverage: dwelling, liability, personal property, and other coverages. The company has one reportable business segment, the Property and Casualty business segment.

Mercury General trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol MCY.

As of March 6, 2026, MCY stock price declined to $90.48 with 252,609 million shares trading.

MCY has a beta of 0.57, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. MCY has a correlation of 0.11 to the broad based SPY ETF.

MCY has a market cap of $5.01 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Mercury General reported $2 billion in Revenue and $3.66 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $105 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $1.10.

In the last 3 years, MCY traded as high as $100.06 and as low as $26.15.

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

MCY has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +71.5% while the SPY ETF gained +18.7%. MCY has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +0.9% and +4.7%, respectively, while the SPY returned -1.7% and -2.5%, respectively.

MCY support price is $89.05 and resistance is $93.42 (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 MCY shares will trade within this expected range on the day.