SAFT vs. AGO, MCY, HTH, STC, HCI, EIG, AMSF, PRA, UFCS, and UVE
Should you be buying Safety Insurance Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Safety Insurance Group include Assured Guaranty (AGO), Mercury General (MCY), Hilltop (HTH), Stewart Information Services (STC), HCI Group (HCI), Employers (EIG), AMERISAFE (AMSF), ProAssurance (PRA), United Fire Group (UFCS), and Universal Insurance (UVE). These companies are all part of the "property & casualty insurance" industry.
Safety Insurance Group vs.
Safety Insurance Group (NASDAQ:SAFT) and Assured Guaranty (NYSE:AGO) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Assured Guaranty has a consensus price target of $103.33, indicating a potential upside of 12.41%. Given Assured Guaranty's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Assured Guaranty is more favorable than Safety Insurance Group.
Safety Insurance Group pays an annual dividend of $3.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Assured Guaranty pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Safety Insurance Group pays out 71.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Assured Guaranty pays out 9.6% 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.
81.0% of Safety Insurance Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.2% of Assured Guaranty shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Safety Insurance Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.1% of Assured Guaranty shares are owned by 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.
Assured Guaranty has a net margin of 70.37% compared to Safety Insurance Group's net margin of 6.86%. Assured Guaranty's return on equity of 11.58% beat Safety Insurance Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Safety Insurance Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Assured Guaranty'saverage media sentiment score.
Assured Guaranty has higher revenue and earnings than Safety Insurance Group. Assured Guaranty 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.
Assured Guaranty received 254 more outperform votes than Safety Insurance Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.83% of users gave Assured Guaranty an outperform vote while only 56.64% of users gave Safety Insurance Group an outperform vote.
Safety Insurance Group has a beta of 0.2, suggesting that its stock price is 80% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Assured Guaranty has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Assured Guaranty beats Safety Insurance Group on 16 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:SAFT) was last updated on 1/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
