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EIG vs. SAFT, TRUP, L, AGO, HTH, HCI, STC, PRA, AMSF, and UFCS

Should you be buying Employers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Employers include Safety Insurance Group (SAFT), Trupanion (TRUP), Loews (L), Assured Guaranty (AGO), Hilltop (HTH), HCI Group (HCI), Stewart Information Services (STC), ProAssurance (PRA), AMERISAFE (AMSF), and United Fire Group (UFCS). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

Employers vs. Its Competitors

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

Employers pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Safety Insurance Group pays an annual dividend of $3.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Employers pays out 31.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Safety Insurance Group pays out 64.4% 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.

In the previous week, Safety Insurance Group had 2 more articles in the media than Employers. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Safety Insurance Group and 4 mentions for Employers. Safety Insurance Group's average media sentiment score of 1.75 beat Employers' score of 1.64 indicating that Safety Insurance Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Employers
4 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
Safety Insurance Group
4 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

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

Employers currently has a consensus price target of $58.00, suggesting a potential upside of 40.85%. Given Employers' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Employers is more favorable than Safety Insurance Group.

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

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
Employers11.37% 7.56% 2.29%
Safety Insurance Group 7.07%8.34%3.09%

80.5% of Employers shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.0% of Safety Insurance Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Employers shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Safety Insurance Group shares are owned by company 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.

Employers has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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
Employers$880.70M1.10$118.60M$4.1010.04
Safety Insurance Group$1.12B0.96$70.73M$5.7112.64

Summary

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

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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EIG vs. The Competition

MetricEmployersINS IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$966.52M$12.21B$12.70B$21.43B
Dividend Yield3.06%2.09%5.42%3.50%
P/E Ratio10.0334.41244.3529.79
Price / Sales1.101.7331.0168.87
Price / Cash9.4230.1019.2518.13
Price / Book0.952.342.304.64
Net Income$118.60M$1.21B$1.01B$999.44M
7 Day Performance-2.12%0.19%0.38%0.96%
1 Month Performance-0.46%1.02%2.96%4.39%
1 Year Performance-14.33%13.66%541.06%14.04%

Employers Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
EIG
Employers
4.184 of 5 stars
$41.18
-0.3%
$58.00
+40.8%
-13.5%$966.52M$880.70M10.03680Positive News
SAFT
Safety Insurance Group
3.6718 of 5 stars
$73.52
+1.3%
N/A-11.8%$1.08B$1.19B12.88550Positive News
Short Interest ↓
TRUP
Trupanion
4.1016 of 5 stars
$43.38
-1.6%
$54.17
+24.9%
-5.0%$1.90B$1.36B166.851,130Positive News
L
Loews
1.4472 of 5 stars
$96.04
-0.6%
N/A+23.8%$20.05B$17.78B15.2713,000Positive News
AGO
Assured Guaranty
4.5161 of 5 stars
$81.92
-0.3%
$98.50
+20.2%
+1.5%$3.91B$872M9.05410Positive News
HTH
Hilltop
4.7502 of 5 stars
$35.15
-0.3%
$32.00
-9.0%
+4.9%$2.22B$1.61B15.763,646Positive News
HCI
HCI Group
3.3394 of 5 stars
$175.27
+2.8%
$181.25
+3.4%
+77.8%$2.21B$750.05M15.54530Positive News
Gap Up
STC
Stewart Information Services
2.8589 of 5 stars
$75.11
+2.1%
$77.50
+3.2%
-2.1%$2.06B$2.49B24.157,000
PRA
ProAssurance
2.307 of 5 stars
$23.79
+0.1%
$21.50
-9.6%
+82.9%$1.22B$1.15B25.301,036Positive News
AMSF
AMERISAFE
4.2538 of 5 stars
$45.80
-0.2%
$57.50
+25.5%
-11.8%$871.10M$309.04M17.35350Positive News
UFCS
United Fire Group
3.6554 of 5 stars
$30.97
-0.6%
$30.50
-1.5%
+55.2%$794.33M$1.32B8.821,090Positive News

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This page (NYSE:EIG) was last updated on 9/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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