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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

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Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
AMSF AMERISAFE	$50.88 +1.7%	$50.24	$45.34 ▼ $57.06	$973.59M	0.32	132,081 shs	137,137 shs
EIG Employers	$44.33 +2.9%	$44.33	$35.43 ▼ $46.78	$1.12B	0.24	134,313 shs	130,581 shs
JRVR James River Group	$9.34 +1.4%	$9.18	$6.35 ▼ $22.15	$351.74M	0.18	1.28 million shs	696,259 shs
STFC State Auto Financial	$52.01	$51.88	$16.40 ▼ $52.14	$2.32B	0.34	85,700 shs	1 shs
UFCS United Fire Group	$22.80 +3.5%	$22.46	$18.41 ▼ $27.72	$576.38M	0.35	88,674 shs	111,193 shs

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Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
AMSF AMERISAFE	+2.80%	+5.24%	-0.97%	+4.62%	-4.52%
EIG Employers	+1.39%	+0.75%	-2.86%	+5.20%	+1.08%
JRVR James River Group	+5.62%	+6.47%	+18.84%	+7.22%	-52.99%
STFC State Auto Financial	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
UFCS United Fire Group	+1.94%	+1.33%	+1.47%	+1.43%	-19.36%

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MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
AMSF AMERISAFE	3.9987 of 5 stars	3.5	4.0	4.2	0.0	2.5	1.7	1.3
EIG Employers	2.8069 of 5 stars	2.3	5.0	2.5	0.0	2.0	1.7	1.3
JRVR James River Group	4.3567 of 5 stars	4.2	3.0	1.7	0.0	2.5	2.5	2.5
STFC State Auto Financial	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
UFCS United Fire Group	1.8971 of 5 stars	0.5	5.0	1.7	0.0	1.3	3.3	2.5

Analyst Ratings

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
AMSF AMERISAFE	3.00	Buy	$65.00	27.75% Upside
EIG Employers	2.50	Moderate Buy	$55.00	24.07% Upside
JRVR James River Group	2.33	Hold	$12.33	32.05% Upside
STFC State Auto Financial	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
UFCS United Fire Group	1.00	Sell	$21.00	-7.89% Downside

Current Analyst Ratings

Latest AMSF, EIG, STFC, UFCS, and JRVR Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
4/15/2024	AMSF AMERISAFE	JMP Securities Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Market Outperform ➝ Market Outperform	$65.00
4/15/2024	JRVR James River Group	JMP Securities Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Market Outperform ➝ Market Outperform	$15.00
4/1/2024	UFCS United Fire Group	Piper Sandler Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Underweight ➝ Underweight	$21.00
3/22/2024	JRVR James River Group	Compass Point Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Neutral ➝ Buy	$12.00
3/7/2024	JRVR James River Group	Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Market Perform ➝ Market Perform	$11.00 ➝ $9.00
3/5/2024	JRVR James River Group	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$34.00 ➝ $15.00
3/1/2024	JRVR James River Group	Truist Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Hold ➝ Hold	$15.00 ➝ $11.00
2/27/2024	EIG Employers	Janney Montgomery Scott Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Buy ➝ Neutral
2/20/2024	EIG Employers	Truist Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$53.00 ➝ $55.00

(Data available from 4/19/2021 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
AMSF AMERISAFE	$306.91M	3.17	$3.29 per share	15.45	$15.25 per share	3.34
EIG Employers	$850.90M	1.32	$5.10 per share	8.70	$39.42 per share	1.12
JRVR James River Group	$812.01M	0.43	$4.47 per share	2.09	$14.20 per share	0.66
STFC State Auto Financial	$1.48B	1.56	$0.05 per share	1,080.29	$23.04 per share	2.26
UFCS United Fire Group	$1.10B	0.53	N/A	N/A	$29.04 per share	0.79

Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
AMSF AMERISAFE	$62.11M	$3.23	15.75	22.82	N/A	20.24%	17.19%	4.38%	4/24/2024 (Confirmed)
EIG Employers	$118.10M	$4.47	9.92	11.98	N/A	13.88%	10.54%	2.82%	4/25/2024 (Confirmed)
JRVR James River Group	-$107.68M	-$2.26	N/A	4.34	N/A	-10.80%	13.75%	1.49%	5/7/2024 (Estimated)
STFC State Auto Financial	$13.10M	$1.62	32.10	N/A	N/A	4.32%	2.72%	0.86%	N/A
UFCS United Fire Group	-$29.70M	-$1.18	N/A	15.20	N/A	-2.71%	-4.38%	-1.01%	5/13/2024 (Estimated)

Latest AMSF, EIG, STFC, UFCS, and JRVR Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
4/25/2024	N/A	EIG Employers	$0.69	N/A	-$0.69	N/A	N/A	N/A
4/24/2024	N/A	AMSF AMERISAFE	$0.66	N/A	-$0.66	N/A	N/A	N/A
2/28/2024	Q4 2023	JRVR James River Group	$0.43	$0.33	-$0.10	$4.09	$216.80 million	$218.10 million
2/21/2024	Q4 2023	AMSF AMERISAFE	$0.66	$0.74	+$0.08	$0.48	$75.15 million	$73.88 million
2/16/2024	Q4 2023	EIG Employers	$1.00	$1.40	+$0.40	$1.03	$215.38 million	$225.70 million
2/13/2024	Q4 2023	UFCS United Fire Group	$0.53	$0.65	+$0.12	$0.53	$278.70 million	$287.32 million

Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
AMSF AMERISAFE	$1.48	2.91%	+7.99%	45.82%	11 Years
EIG Employers	$1.12	2.53%	+3.23%	25.06%	2 Years
JRVR James River Group	$0.20	2.14%	-44.97%	N/A	N/A
STFC State Auto Financial	$0.40	0.77%	N/A	24.69%	N/A
UFCS United Fire Group	$0.64	2.81%	-17.51%	N/A	N/A

Latest AMSF, EIG, STFC, UFCS, and JRVR Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
2/28/2024	JRVR James River Group	Quarterly	$0.05	2%	3/8/2024	3/11/2024	3/29/2024
2/19/2024	AMSF AMERISAFE	Quarterly	$0.37	2.93%	3/7/2024	3/8/2024	3/22/2024
2/23/2024	UFCS United Fire Group	Quarterly	$0.16	2.66%	3/7/2024	3/8/2024	3/22/2024
2/14/2024	EIG Employers	quarterly	$0.28	2.5%	2/27/2024	2/28/2024	3/13/2024

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
AMSF AMERISAFE	N/A	0.36	0.36
EIG Employers	N/A	0.45	0.45
JRVR James River Group	0.42	0.55	0.55
STFC State Auto Financial	0.13	0.06	0.06
UFCS United Fire Group	N/A	0.35	0.35

Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
AMSF AMERISAFE	97.41%
EIG Employers	80.49%
JRVR James River Group	95.21%
STFC State Auto Financial	34.69%
UFCS United Fire Group	62.68%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
AMSF AMERISAFE	1.59%
EIG Employers	1.40%
JRVR James River Group	15.20%
STFC State Auto Financial	2.02%
UFCS United Fire Group	5.99%

Miscellaneous

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
AMSF AMERISAFE	350	19.14 million	18.83 million	Optionable
EIG Employers	717	25.34 million	24.99 million	Optionable
JRVR James River Group	649	37.66 million	31.94 million	Optionable
STFC State Auto Financial	2,025	44.51 million	43.61 million	Optionable
UFCS United Fire Group	852	25.28 million	23.77 million	Optionable

AMSF, EIG, STFC, UFCS, and JRVR Headlines

Source	Headline
	United Fire Group, Inc. Announces Its 2024 First Quarter Earnings Call globenewswire.com - April 19 at 3:00 PM
	Red Cross Helps 4 People Affected by a Multi-Unit Fire in Lauderhill communitynewspapers.com - April 17 at 8:36 AM
	Union Rural Fire board meets April 16 lagrandeobserver.com - April 17 at 8:36 AM
	United Fire Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:UFCS) Sees Significant Drop in Short Interest marketbeat.com - April 12 at 1:40 PM
	Should Value Investors Buy United Fire Group (UFCS) Stock? zacks.com - April 11 at 10:46 AM
	Piper Sandler Keeps Their Sell Rating on United Fire Group (UFCS) markets.businessinsider.com - April 2 at 1:42 AM
	United Fire Group (NASDAQ:UFCS) Receives Underweight Rating from Piper Sandler marketbeat.com - April 1 at 11:09 AM
	United Fire Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:UFCS) is favoured by institutional owners who hold 65% of the company finance.yahoo.com - March 29 at 1:46 PM
	Union II Faces First Roadtrip of 2024 as They Take On Chicago Fire II phillysportsnetwork.com - March 29 at 2:39 AM
	Are Investors Undervaluing United Fire Group (UFCS) Right Now? zacks.com - March 26 at 10:46 AM
	UFCU Field of Membership Expands to Include Greater Austin YMCA Staff finance.yahoo.com - March 25 at 7:14 PM
	United Fire Group insider sells shares worth over $110k investing.com - March 20 at 6:16 PM
	Christopher R. Drahozal Sells 2,500 Shares of United Fire Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:UFCS) Stock insidertrades.com - March 20 at 7:19 AM
	United Airlines CEO tries to reassure customers that airline is safe msn.com - March 18 at 1:02 PM
	Insider Buying: United Fire Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:UFCS) VP Purchases 1,500 Shares of Stock insidertrades.com - March 15 at 11:59 AM
	Former UFC champion hospitalized in coma after saving his parents from house fire kcrg.com - March 14 at 3:14 PM
	Police believe someone intentionally set fire that damaged 7 vehicles at apartment complex near UCF msn.com - March 12 at 8:29 AM
	Arson blamed for fire that damaged 7 vehicles at student housing near UCF clickorlando.com - March 12 at 8:29 AM
	Interested In United Fire Group's (NASDAQ:UFCS) Upcoming US$0.16 Dividend? You Have Four Days Left finance.yahoo.com - March 2 at 10:20 AM
	United Fire Group (NASDAQ:UFCS) Has Announced A Dividend Of $0.16 finance.yahoo.com - February 29 at 7:52 AM
	Is United Fire Group (UFCS) Stock Undervalued Right Now? zacks.com - February 28 at 10:46 AM
	United Fire Group (UFCS) Price Target Increased by 16.67% to 21.42 msn.com - February 24 at 7:51 PM
	United Fire Group, Inc. Declares a Common Stock Quarterly Cash Dividend of $0.16 per Share globenewswire.com - February 23 at 4:01 PM
	United Fire Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:UFCS) Q4 2023 Earnings Call Transcript finance.yahoo.com - February 15 at 1:04 PM

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Company Descriptions

AMERISAFE

NASDAQ:AMSF

AMERISAFE, Inc., an insurance holding company, underwrites workers' compensation insurance in the United States. The company provides benefits to injured employees for temporary or permanent disability, death, and medical and hospital expenses. It sells its products through retail and wholesale brokers and agents; and small and mid-sized employers engaged in hazardous industries, including construction, trucking, logging and lumber, agriculture, manufacturing, telecommunications, and maritime. AMERISAFE, Inc. was incorporated in 1985 and is based in DeRidder, Louisiana.

Employers

NYSE:EIG

Employers Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates in the commercial property and casualty insurance industry primarily in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Employers and Cerity. It offers workers' compensation insurance to small businesses in low to medium hazard industries under the Employers and Cerity brands. The company markets its products through local, regional, and national agents and brokers; alternative distribution channels; and national, regional, and local trade groups and associations, as well as directly to customers. Employers Holdings, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is based in Henderson, Nevada.

James River Group

NASDAQ:JRVR

James River Group Holdings, Ltd., through its subsidiaries, provides specialty insurance services. It operates through Excess and Surplus Lines, and Specialty Admitted Insurance segments. The Excess and Surplus Lines segment underwrites liability and property insurance in the United States Puerto Rice, and the United States Virgin Islands. This segment distributes its insurance policies primarily through wholesale insurance brokers. The Specialty Admitted Insurance segment provides insurance for fronting, program administrators, managing general agents, and independent retail agents. James River Group Holdings, Ltd. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Pembroke, Bermuda.

State Auto Financial

NASDAQ:STFC

State Auto Financial Corp. is a property and casualty insurance holding company, which engages in the provision of insurance services. It operates through the following segments: Personal Insurance, Commercial Insurance, and Investment Operations. The Personal Insurance segment comprises personal auto, homeowners, and other personal insurance. The Commercial Insurance segment covers commercial auto, small commercial package, middle market commercial, workers compensation, farm and ranch, and other commercial. The Investment Operations segment provides investment services and is evaluated based on investment returns of assets. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Columbus, OH.

United Fire Group

NASDAQ:UFCS

United Fire Group, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides property and casualty insurance for individuals and businesses in the United States. The company offers commercial and personal lines of property and casualty insurance; and reinsurance coverage for property and casualty insurance. Its commercial lines include fire and allied lines, other liability, automobile, workers' compensation, fidelity and surety coverage, and other insurance products; and personal lines comprise automobile, and fire and allied lines coverage, including homeowners, as well as provides assumed reinsurance products. The company sells its products through a network of independent agencies. United Fire Group, Inc. was incorporated in 1946 and is headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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