SAFT vs. MAX, AMSF, HMN, PRA, FSCO, STBA, SRCE, NBHC, PFBC, and EIG
Should you be buying Safety Insurance Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Safety Insurance Group include MediaAlpha (MAX), AMERISAFE (AMSF), Horace Mann Educators (HMN), ProAssurance (PRA), FS Credit Opportunities (FSCO), S&T Bancorp (STBA), 1st Source (SRCE), National Bank (NBHC), Preferred Bank (PFBC), and Employers (EIG).
Safety Insurance Group (NASDAQ:SAFT) and MediaAlpha (NYSE:MAX) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and risk.
81.0% of Safety Insurance Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.4% of MediaAlpha shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Safety Insurance Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 11.5% of MediaAlpha shares are held by 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 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 target price of $21.50, suggesting a potential downside of 1.60%. Given MediaAlpha's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe MediaAlpha is more favorable than Safety Insurance Group.
Safety Insurance Group has a beta of 0.19, indicating that its stock price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MediaAlpha has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, MediaAlpha had 17 more articles in the media than Safety Insurance Group. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for MediaAlpha and 2 mentions for Safety Insurance Group. Safety Insurance Group's average media sentiment score of 1.49 beat MediaAlpha's score of 0.89 indicating that Safety Insurance Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Safety Insurance Group received 109 more outperform votes than MediaAlpha when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.46% of users gave MediaAlpha an outperform vote while only 56.57% of users gave Safety Insurance Group an outperform vote.
Safety Insurance Group has a net margin of 2.03% compared to MediaAlpha's net margin of -7.76%. Safety Insurance Group's return on equity of 1.56% beat MediaAlpha's return on equity.
Summary
Safety Insurance Group beats MediaAlpha on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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