SAFT vs. MAX, HMN, WTM, AGO, MCY, HTH, STC, EIG, HCI, and AMSF
Should you be buying Safety Insurance Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Safety Insurance Group include MediaAlpha (MAX), Horace Mann Educators (HMN), White Mountains Insurance Group (WTM), Assured Guaranty (AGO), Mercury General (MCY), Hilltop (HTH), Stewart Information Services (STC), Employers (EIG), HCI Group (HCI), and AMERISAFE (AMSF).
Safety Insurance Group (NASDAQ:SAFT) and MediaAlpha (NYSE:MAX) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Safety Insurance Group has a net margin of 5.20% compared to MediaAlpha's net margin of -7.76%. Safety Insurance Group's return on equity of 4.90% beat MediaAlpha's return on equity.
Safety Insurance Group has a beta of 0.19, indicating that its share price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MediaAlpha has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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 company insiders. Comparatively, 11.5% of MediaAlpha shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Safety Insurance Group received 108 more outperform votes than MediaAlpha when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.81% of users gave MediaAlpha an outperform vote while only 56.75% of users gave Safety Insurance Group an outperform vote.
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.
MediaAlpha has a consensus price target of $22.71, indicating a potential upside of 23.92%. Given MediaAlpha's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe MediaAlpha is more favorable than Safety Insurance Group.
In the previous week, Safety Insurance Group and Safety Insurance Group both had 4 articles in the media. Safety Insurance Group's average media sentiment score of 1.84 beat MediaAlpha's score of 0.79 indicating that Safety Insurance Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Safety Insurance Group beats MediaAlpha on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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