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SAFT vs. EIG, THG, MCY, AGO, HCI, HTH, STC, PRA, AMSF, and UFCS

Should you be buying Safety Insurance Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Safety Insurance Group include Employers (EIG), The Hanover Insurance Group (THG), Mercury General (MCY), Assured Guaranty (AGO), HCI Group (HCI), Hilltop (HTH), Stewart Information Services (STC), ProAssurance (PRA), AMERISAFE (AMSF), and United Fire Group (UFCS). These companies are all part of the "property & casualty insurance" industry.

Safety Insurance Group vs. Its Competitors

Safety Insurance Group (NASDAQ:SAFT) and Employers (NYSE:EIG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, valuation and institutional ownership.

Employers has a net margin of 11.37% compared to Safety Insurance Group's net margin of 7.07%. Safety Insurance Group's return on equity of 8.34% beat Employers' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Safety Insurance Group7.07% 8.34% 3.09%
Employers 11.37%7.56%2.29%

Employers has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Safety Insurance Group. Employers 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Safety Insurance Group$1.12B0.95$70.73M$5.7112.47
Employers$880.70M1.12$118.60M$4.1010.19

Safety Insurance Group has a beta of 0.28, suggesting that its share price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Employers has a beta of 0.53, suggesting that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Safety Insurance Group pays an annual dividend of $3.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Employers pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Safety Insurance Group pays out 64.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Employers pays out 31.2% 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. Employers has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years.

81.0% of Safety Insurance Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.5% of Employers shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Safety Insurance Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Employers shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Employers had 7 more articles in the media than Safety Insurance Group. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Employers and 1 mentions for Safety Insurance Group. Safety Insurance Group's average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Employers' score of 0.60 indicating that Safety Insurance Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Safety Insurance Group Positive
Employers Positive

Employers has a consensus target price of $58.00, indicating a potential upside of 38.84%. Given Employers' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Employers is more favorable than Safety Insurance Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Safety Insurance Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Employers
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Summary

Employers beats Safety Insurance Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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SAFT vs. The Competition

MetricSafety Insurance GroupINS IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$1.07B$59.49B$12.62B$10.39B
Dividend Yield5.11%1.87%5.47%4.64%
P/E Ratio12.4716.56239.4826.11
Price / Sales0.952.7430.74124.93
Price / Cash14.9128.8322.6961.24
Price / Book1.282.992.276.30
Net Income$70.73M$4.66B$1.01B$271.03M
7 Day Performance-0.54%-1.60%-0.91%-0.20%
1 Month Performance-3.17%1.85%0.85%5.77%
1 Year Performance-13.33%17.44%539.39%27.62%

Safety Insurance Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SAFT
Safety Insurance Group
3.4302 of 5 stars
$71.20
-1.2%
N/A-12.7%$1.07B$1.12B12.47550Positive News
EIG
Employers
3.9691 of 5 stars
$41.19
-1.5%
$58.00
+40.8%
-11.7%$983.02M$880.70M10.05680Positive News
THG
The Hanover Insurance Group
3.7143 of 5 stars
$176.61
-2.1%
$185.13
+4.8%
+19.3%$6.45B$6.24B11.634,900
MCY
Mercury General
3.5487 of 5 stars
$78.41
-1.2%
$90.00
+14.8%
+28.7%$4.40B$5.77B11.144,200
AGO
Assured Guaranty
4.1033 of 5 stars
$81.39
-1.3%
$98.50
+21.0%
+5.5%$3.93B$872M8.99410Insider Trade
HCI
HCI Group
3.0452 of 5 stars
$178.35
-1.4%
$181.25
+1.6%
+69.3%$2.34B$750.05M15.81530News Coverage
HTH
Hilltop
4.7968 of 5 stars
$33.93
-2.0%
$32.00
-5.7%
+7.6%$2.18B$1.61B15.223,646Positive News
STC
Stewart Information Services
2.669 of 5 stars
$74.40
-0.1%
$77.50
+4.2%
+0.6%$2.09B$2.49B23.927,000
PRA
ProAssurance
2.1627 of 5 stars
$23.78
0.0%
$21.50
-9.6%
+64.8%$1.22B$1.15B25.301,036Trending News
Analyst Revision
AMSF
AMERISAFE
4.3168 of 5 stars
$43.06
-2.7%
$57.50
+33.5%
-10.0%$840.72M$309.04M16.31350Positive News
High Trading Volume
UFCS
United Fire Group
3.6985 of 5 stars
$31.82
+0.5%
$30.50
-4.1%
+48.1%$806.82M$1.25B9.071,090Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:SAFT) was last updated on 9/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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