AMSF vs. PRA, HCI, EIG, SAFT, UVE, UFCS, MAX, GBLI, DGICA, and MCY
Should you be buying AMERISAFE stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AMERISAFE include ProAssurance (PRA), HCI Group (HCI), Employers (EIG), Safety Insurance Group (SAFT), Universal Insurance (UVE), United Fire Group (UFCS), MediaAlpha (MAX), Global Indemnity Group (GBLI), Donegal Group (DGICA), and Mercury General (MCY).
ProAssurance (NYSE:PRA) and AMERISAFE (NASDAQ:AMSF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
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.
ProAssurance has a beta of 0.21, suggesting that its stock price is 79% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AMERISAFE has a beta of 0.35, suggesting that its stock price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500.
85.6% of ProAssurance shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.4% of AMERISAFE shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of ProAssurance shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of AMERISAFE shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
AMERISAFE has a net margin of 19.97% compared to AMERISAFE's net margin of -2.42%. ProAssurance's return on equity of 16.76% beat AMERISAFE's return on equity.
ProAssurance presently has a consensus price target of $17.67, indicating a potential upside of 19.13%. AMERISAFE has a consensus price target of $65.00, indicating a potential upside of 40.18%. Given ProAssurance's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe AMERISAFE is more favorable than ProAssurance.
In the previous week, ProAssurance and ProAssurance both had 3 articles in the media. ProAssurance's average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat AMERISAFE's score of 0.60 indicating that AMERISAFE is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ProAssurance received 32 more outperform votes than AMERISAFE when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.72% of users gave ProAssurance an outperform vote while only 57.14% of users gave AMERISAFE an outperform vote.
Summary
AMERISAFE beats ProAssurance on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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