SAFT vs. MAX, HMN, WTM, AGO, MCY, HTH, STC, EIG, HCI, and AMSF
Should you be buying Safety Insurance Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Safety Insurance Group include MediaAlpha (MAX), Horace Mann Educators (HMN), White Mountains Insurance Group (WTM), Assured Guaranty (AGO), Mercury General (MCY), Hilltop (HTH), Stewart Information Services (STC), Employers (EIG), HCI Group (HCI), and AMERISAFE (AMSF).
MediaAlpha (NYSE:MAX) and Safety Insurance Group (NASDAQ:SAFT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, risk and profitability.
Safety Insurance Group has a net margin of 5.20% compared to Safety Insurance Group's net margin of -7.76%. MediaAlpha's return on equity of 4.90% beat Safety Insurance Group's return on equity.
MediaAlpha presently has a consensus target price of $22.71, indicating a potential upside of 27.75%. Given Safety Insurance Group's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe MediaAlpha is more favorable than Safety Insurance Group.
64.4% of MediaAlpha shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.0% of Safety Insurance Group shares are held by institutional investors. 11.5% of MediaAlpha shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Safety Insurance Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
MediaAlpha has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Safety Insurance Group has a beta of 0.19, meaning that its share price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, MediaAlpha had 1 more articles in the media than Safety Insurance Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for MediaAlpha and 3 mentions for Safety Insurance Group. MediaAlpha's average media sentiment score of 1.84 beat Safety Insurance Group's score of 0.79 indicating that Safety Insurance Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Safety Insurance Group received 108 more outperform votes than MediaAlpha when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.81% of users gave MediaAlpha an outperform vote while only 56.75% of users gave Safety Insurance Group an outperform vote.
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.
Summary
Safety Insurance Group beats MediaAlpha on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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