PRA vs. SAFT, PFLT, OXLC, SBSI, PUYI, LC, MVF, CSTR, TYG, and MUC
Should you be buying ProAssurance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ProAssurance include Safety Insurance Group (SAFT), PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT), Oxford Lane Capital (OXLC), Southside Bancshares (SBSI), Highest Performances (PUYI), LendingClub (LC), BlackRock MuniVest Fund (MVF), CapStar Financial (CSTR), Tortoise Energy Infrastructure (TYG), and BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund (MUC).
Safety Insurance Group (NASDAQ:SAFT) and ProAssurance (NYSE:PRA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, dividends and risk.
Safety Insurance Group has a beta of 0.19, suggesting that its stock price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ProAssurance has a beta of 0.21, suggesting that its stock price is 79% less volatile than the S&P 500.
81.0% of Safety Insurance Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.6% of ProAssurance shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Safety Insurance Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of ProAssurance shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Safety Insurance Group has a net margin of 2.03% compared to Safety Insurance Group's net margin of -3.39%. ProAssurance's return on equity of 1.56% beat Safety Insurance Group's return on equity.
ProAssurance has a consensus price target of $17.00, suggesting a potential upside of 21.86%. Given Safety Insurance Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe ProAssurance is more favorable than Safety Insurance Group.
Safety Insurance Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than ProAssurance. ProAssurance 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.
ProAssurance received 114 more outperform votes than Safety Insurance Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.85% of users gave ProAssurance an outperform vote while only 56.57% of users gave Safety Insurance Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Safety Insurance Group and Safety Insurance Group both had 1 articles in the media. ProAssurance's average media sentiment score of 1.49 beat Safety Insurance Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Safety Insurance Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Safety Insurance Group beats ProAssurance on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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