AMSF vs. PRA, HCI, EIG, SAFT, UVE, UFCS, MAX, GBLI, DGICA, and MCY
Should you be buying AMERISAFE stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AMERISAFE include ProAssurance (PRA), HCI Group (HCI), Employers (EIG), Safety Insurance Group (SAFT), Universal Insurance (UVE), United Fire Group (UFCS), MediaAlpha (MAX), Global Indemnity Group (GBLI), Donegal Group (DGICA), and Mercury General (MCY).
AMERISAFE (NASDAQ:AMSF) and ProAssurance (NYSE:PRA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and risk.
ProAssurance received 32 more outperform votes than AMERISAFE when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.72% of users gave ProAssurance an outperform vote while only 57.14% of users gave AMERISAFE an outperform vote.
In the previous week, AMERISAFE and AMERISAFE both had 3 articles in the media. AMERISAFE's average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat ProAssurance's score of 0.60 indicating that AMERISAFE is being referred to more favorably in the media.
97.4% of AMERISAFE shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.6% of ProAssurance shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of AMERISAFE shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of ProAssurance shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
AMERISAFE has a beta of 0.35, indicating that its stock price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ProAssurance has a beta of 0.21, indicating that its stock price is 79% less volatile than the S&P 500.
AMERISAFE currently has a consensus target price of $65.00, suggesting a potential upside of 40.18%. ProAssurance has a consensus target price of $17.67, suggesting a potential upside of 19.13%. Given AMERISAFE's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe AMERISAFE is more favorable than ProAssurance.
AMERISAFE has a net margin of 19.97% compared to ProAssurance's net margin of -2.42%. AMERISAFE's return on equity of 16.76% beat ProAssurance's return on equity.
AMERISAFE has higher earnings, but lower revenue than ProAssurance. ProAssurance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AMERISAFE, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
AMERISAFE beats ProAssurance on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding AMSF and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ 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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