UFCS vs. HTH, HCI, STC, EIG, PRA, SAFT, AMSF, UVE, DGICA, and ITIC
Should you be buying United Fire Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of United Fire Group include Hilltop (HTH), HCI Group (HCI), Stewart Information Services (STC), Employers (EIG), ProAssurance (PRA), Safety Insurance Group (SAFT), AMERISAFE (AMSF), Universal Insurance (UVE), Donegal Group (DGICA), and Investors Title (ITIC). These companies are all part of the "property & casualty insurance" industry.
United Fire Group vs.
United Fire Group (NASDAQ:UFCS) and Hilltop (NYSE:HTH) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, risk and institutional ownership.
Hilltop received 16 more outperform votes than United Fire Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.81% of users gave United Fire Group an outperform vote while only 52.48% of users gave Hilltop an outperform vote.
Hilltop has a net margin of 7.04% compared to United Fire Group's net margin of 4.94%. United Fire Group's return on equity of 8.84% beat Hilltop's return on equity.
United Fire Group has a beta of 0.49, indicating that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hilltop has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
United Fire Group presently has a consensus target price of $30.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.99%. Hilltop has a consensus target price of $33.00, suggesting a potential upside of 10.33%. Given Hilltop's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Hilltop is more favorable than United Fire Group.
United Fire Group pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Hilltop pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. United Fire Group pays out 25.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hilltop pays out 36.5% 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. Hilltop has increased its dividend for 8 consecutive years. Hilltop is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Hilltop has lower revenue, but higher earnings than United Fire Group. United Fire Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hilltop, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Hilltop had 3 more articles in the media than United Fire Group. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Hilltop and 7 mentions for United Fire Group. Hilltop's average media sentiment score of 1.50 beat United Fire Group's score of 0.77 indicating that Hilltop is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
62.7% of United Fire Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.1% of Hilltop shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.1% of United Fire Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 29.9% of Hilltop shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Hilltop beats United Fire Group on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:UFCS) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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