Selective Insurance Group Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:SIGI)

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Selective Insurance Group in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" SIGI shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in SIGI, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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6 analysts have issued 1 year price objectives for Selective Insurance Group's stock. Their SIGI share price targets range from $93.00 to $120.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $105.17 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 1.4% from the stock's current price.
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Selective Insurance Group's stock was trading at $88.61 at the beginning of the year. Since then, SIGI stock has increased by 17.1% and is now trading at $103.72.
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Selective Insurance Group saw a increase in short interest in November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,190,000 shares, an increase of 19.0% from the October 31st total of 1,000,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 244,800 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 4.9 days. Currently, 2.0% of the company's stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 1st 2024.
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Selective Insurance Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIGI) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, November, 1st. The insurance provider reported $1.51 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $1.66 by $0.15. The insurance provider earned $1.08 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.07 billion. Selective Insurance Group had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 13.86% and a net margin of 7.97%. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $0.99 EPS.

Selective Insurance Group declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, November 1st. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, November 15th will be given a dividend of $0.35 per share on Friday, December 1st. This represents a $1.40 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.35%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, November 14th. This is an increase from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.30.
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Selective Insurance Group (NASDAQ:SIGI) pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.38%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 10 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 26.92%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, SIGI will have a dividend payout ratio of 18.16% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Selective Insurance Group (NASDAQ:SIGI) stock in their portfolio include Invesco KBW Property & Casualty Insurance ETF (KBWP), JPMorgan Active Small Cap Value ETF (JPSV), SPDR S&P Insurance ETF (KIE), Invesco S&P MidCap Low Volatility ETF (XMLV), Invesco Dorsey Wright Financial Momentum ETF (PFI), Invesco S&P MidCap Momentum ETF (XMMO), iShares U.S. Insurance ETF (IAK) and WisdomTree U.S. Multifactor Fund (USMF).

10 employees have rated Selective Insurance Group Chief Executive Officer John Marchioni on Glassdoor.com. John Marchioni has an approval rating of 70% among the company's employees.

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Selective Insurance Group's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include FMR LLC (6.38%), Morgan Stanley (3.37%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (1.72%), Northern Trust Corp (1.62%), Boston Trust Walden Corp (1.59%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.53%). Insiders that own company stock include Brenda M Hall, Colby 2014 Family Trust, Cynthia S Nicholson, Gregory E Murphy, Gregory E Murphy, J Brian Thebault, John Burville, John J Marchioni, Michael J Morrissey, Michael J Morrissey, Vincent M Senia, William M Rue, Wole C Coaxum and Wole C Coaxum.
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