UVE vs ASTE Comparison

Universal Insurance Holdings Inc is a private personal residential homeowner insurance company. The company develops, markets, and underwrites insurance products for consumers predominantly in the personal residential homeowners' lines of business and performs substantially all other insurance-related services for its primary insurance entities, including risk management, claims management, and distribution. The company generates revenue from the collection of premiums, earned net interest and dividend income from the investment portfolio, the collection of reinsurance recoverable and financing fees. The company's primary insurance subsidiaries, (UPCIC) and (APPCIC) provide insurance for personal residential: homeowners, renters/tenants, condo unit owners, and other related coverages.

Astec Industries Inc designs and manufactures equipment and components used in road construction and other development activities. Its products are used through the entire process of building roads, from mining and crushing materials to creating the road surface. The company manufactures a line of plants, pavers, vehicles, and machines to mix and transform materials into construction components. It has two operating segments: infrastructure solutions generating maximum revenue and materials solutions. The majority of sales are derived from the United States. Its customers are asphalt producers, highway and heavy equipment contractors, ready mix concrete producers, demolition recycling markets, sand and gravel producers, open mine operators, quarry operators, and others.