SAFT vs. MAX, EIG, HCI, AMSF, PRA, UVE, UFCS, GBLI, DGICA, 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), Employers (EIG), HCI Group (HCI), AMERISAFE (AMSF), ProAssurance (PRA), Universal Insurance (UVE), United Fire Group (UFCS), Global Indemnity Group (GBLI), Donegal Group (DGICA), and Mercury General (MCY).
MediaAlpha (NYSE:MAX) and Safety Insurance Group (NASDAQ:SAFT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, earnings, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends and institutional ownership.
Safety Insurance Group has a net margin of 5.20% compared to Safety Insurance Group's net margin of -7.76%. MediaAlpha's return on equity of 4.90% beat Safety Insurance Group's return on equity.
Safety Insurance Group received 109 more outperform votes than MediaAlpha when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.15% of users gave MediaAlpha an outperform vote while only 56.75% of users gave Safety Insurance Group an outperform vote.
64.4% of MediaAlpha shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.0% of Safety Insurance Group shares are held by institutional investors. 11.5% of MediaAlpha shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Safety Insurance Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
MediaAlpha has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Safety Insurance Group has a beta of 0.19, meaning that its stock price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500.
MediaAlpha presently has a consensus price target of $22.00, suggesting a potential upside of 19.76%. Given Safety Insurance Group's higher possible upside, research 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.
In the previous week, MediaAlpha had 4 more articles in the media than Safety Insurance Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for MediaAlpha and 1 mentions for Safety Insurance Group. MediaAlpha's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Safety Insurance Group's score of 0.10 indicating that Safety Insurance Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Safety Insurance Group beats MediaAlpha on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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