ACT vs HRI Comparison

Enact Holdings Inc is a private mortgage insurance company serving the United States housing finance market. The principal mortgage insurance customers are originators of residential mortgage loans who determine which mortgage insurer or insurers they will use for the placement of mortgage insurance written on loans they originate. The company is engaged in the business of writing and assuming residential mortgage guaranty insurance.

Herc Holdings is an equipment rental company that was spun out of Hertz Global in 2016. It is currently the third-largest equipment rental company (4% market share) in North America, after United Rentals and Sunbelt Rentals, with a fleet size of $6.4 billion. It serves commercial and residential construction customers, the environmental sector, industrial entities, and entertainment production companies. During much of its 50-year-plus history, the company has rented equipment such as aerial lifts to its customers for intermittent use. More recently, it has broadened its catalog to include a host of specialty items. Separately, Herc Holdings' strategy now incorporates long-term rentals to industrial customers where Herc maintains its own staff at the customer site.