UVE vs CMP 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.

Compass Minerals currently produces two primary products: salt and specialty potash fertilizer. The company's main assets include rock salt mines in Ontario, Louisiana, and the United Kingdom. The fertilizer is produced from a brine operation at the Great Salt Lake in Utah that produces sulfate of potash and magnesium chloride. Compass' salt products are used for deicing and also by industrial and consumer end markets. The firm's sulfate of potash is used by growers of high-value crops that are sensitive to standard potash.