AMSF vs. EIG, HCI, SAFT, PRA, MAX, UVE, UFCS, DGICA, GBLI, and MCY
Should you be buying AMERISAFE stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AMERISAFE include Employers (EIG), HCI Group (HCI), Safety Insurance Group (SAFT), ProAssurance (PRA), MediaAlpha (MAX), Universal Insurance (UVE), United Fire Group (UFCS), Donegal Group (DGICA), Global Indemnity Group (GBLI), and Mercury General (MCY).
AMERISAFE (NASDAQ:AMSF) and Employers (NYSE:EIG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, risk and media sentiment.
AMERISAFE presently has a consensus target price of $65.00, indicating a potential upside of 27.30%. Employers has a consensus target price of $55.00, indicating a potential upside of 22.52%. Given AMERISAFE's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe AMERISAFE is more favorable than Employers.
Employers has higher revenue and earnings than AMERISAFE. Employers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AMERISAFE, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
97.4% of AMERISAFE shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.5% of Employers shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of AMERISAFE shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Employers shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Employers had 1 more articles in the media than AMERISAFE. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Employers and 3 mentions for AMERISAFE. AMERISAFE's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Employers' score of 0.56 indicating that AMERISAFE is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AMERISAFE has a beta of 0.32, indicating that its stock price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Employers has a beta of 0.24, indicating that its stock price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500.
AMERISAFE pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Employers pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. AMERISAFE pays out 45.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Employers pays out 25.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
AMERISAFE has a net margin of 20.24% compared to Employers' net margin of 13.88%. AMERISAFE's return on equity of 17.19% beat Employers' return on equity.
Employers received 58 more outperform votes than AMERISAFE when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.67% of users gave Employers an outperform vote while only 57.58% of users gave AMERISAFE an outperform vote.
Summary
AMERISAFE beats Employers on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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