AMSF vs. PRA, EIG, HCI, UVE, SAFT, UFCS, DGICA, GBLI, MAX, and JRVR
Should you be buying AMERISAFE stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AMERISAFE include ProAssurance (PRA), Employers (EIG), HCI Group (HCI), Universal Insurance (UVE), Safety Insurance Group (SAFT), United Fire Group (UFCS), Donegal Group (DGICA), Global Indemnity Group (GBLI), MediaAlpha (MAX), and James River Group (JRVR).
ProAssurance (NYSE:PRA) and AMERISAFE (NASDAQ:AMSF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, profitability and media sentiment.
85.6% of ProAssurance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.4% of AMERISAFE shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of ProAssurance shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of AMERISAFE shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
AMERISAFE has a net margin of 19.97% compared to AMERISAFE's net margin of -3.39%. ProAssurance's return on equity of 16.76% beat AMERISAFE's return on equity.
ProAssurance has a beta of 0.21, suggesting that its share price is 79% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AMERISAFE has a beta of 0.35, suggesting that its share price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500.
ProAssurance received 32 more outperform votes than AMERISAFE when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.85% of users gave ProAssurance an outperform vote while only 57.44% of users gave AMERISAFE an outperform vote.
ProAssurance pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. AMERISAFE pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. ProAssurance pays out -27.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AMERISAFE pays out 46.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. AMERISAFE has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years. AMERISAFE is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
ProAssurance presently has a consensus price target of $17.00, suggesting a potential upside of 22.13%. AMERISAFE has a consensus price target of $65.00, suggesting a potential upside of 37.13%. Given ProAssurance's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe AMERISAFE is more favorable than ProAssurance.
AMERISAFE has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ProAssurance. ProAssurance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AMERISAFE, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, AMERISAFE had 8 more articles in the media than ProAssurance. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for AMERISAFE and 2 mentions for ProAssurance. ProAssurance's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat AMERISAFE's score of -0.57 indicating that AMERISAFE is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
AMERISAFE beats ProAssurance on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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