SAFT vs. MAX, HCI, EIG, AMSF, PRA, UVE, UFCS, DGICA, GBLI, and MCY
Should you be buying Safety Insurance Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Safety Insurance Group include MediaAlpha (MAX), HCI Group (HCI), Employers (EIG), AMERISAFE (AMSF), ProAssurance (PRA), Universal Insurance (UVE), United Fire Group (UFCS), Donegal Group (DGICA), Global Indemnity Group (GBLI), and Mercury General (MCY).
Safety Insurance Group (NASDAQ:SAFT) and MediaAlpha (NYSE:MAX) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, risk and dividends.
MediaAlpha has a consensus price target of $18.20, suggesting a potential downside of 11.61%. Given MediaAlpha's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe MediaAlpha is more favorable than Safety Insurance Group.
Safety Insurance Group has higher revenue and earnings than MediaAlpha. MediaAlpha is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Safety Insurance Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
81.0% of Safety Insurance Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.4% of MediaAlpha shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Safety Insurance Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.5% of MediaAlpha shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Safety Insurance Group has a net margin of 2.03% compared to MediaAlpha's net margin of -10.41%. Safety Insurance Group's return on equity of 1.56% beat MediaAlpha's return on equity.
Safety Insurance Group has a beta of 0.19, suggesting that its stock price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MediaAlpha has a beta of 1.35, suggesting that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Safety Insurance Group received 111 more outperform votes than MediaAlpha when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.00% of users gave MediaAlpha an outperform vote while only 56.57% of users gave Safety Insurance Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, MediaAlpha had 3 more articles in the media than Safety Insurance Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for MediaAlpha and 0 mentions for Safety Insurance Group. MediaAlpha's average media sentiment score of 0.24 beat Safety Insurance Group's score of 0.00 indicating that MediaAlpha is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Safety Insurance Group beats MediaAlpha on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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