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United Fire Group (UFCS) Competitors

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UFCS vs. HTH, STC, HCI, EIG, PRA, SAFT, AMSF, DGICA, UVE, and GBLI

Should you be buying United Fire Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of United Fire Group include Hilltop (HTH), Stewart Information Services (STC), HCI Group (HCI), Employers (EIG), ProAssurance (PRA), Safety Insurance Group (SAFT), AMERISAFE (AMSF), Donegal Group (DGICA), Universal Insurance (UVE), and Global Indemnity Group (GBLI). 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 superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and profitability.

United Fire Group presently has a consensus target price of $30.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1.15%. Hilltop has a consensus target price of $34.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.65%. Given Hilltop's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Hilltop is more favorable than United Fire Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
United Fire Group
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Hilltop
1 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.67

United Fire Group pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Hilltop pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. United Fire Group pays out 26.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hilltop pays out 41.4% 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.

United Fire Group has a beta of 0.45, indicating that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hilltop has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Hilltop had 2 more articles in the media than United Fire Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Hilltop and 3 mentions for United Fire Group. United Fire Group's average media sentiment score of 1.70 beat Hilltop's score of 1.67 indicating that United Fire Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
United Fire Group
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
Hilltop
5 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
United Fire Group$1.25B0.60$61.96M$2.3812.46
Hilltop$1.12B1.76$113.21M$1.7417.50

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
United Fire Group4.94% 8.84% 1.95%
Hilltop 7.04%5.18%0.71%

62.7% of United Fire Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.1% of Hilltop shares are held by institutional investors. 6.0% of United Fire Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 29.3% of Hilltop shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Hilltop received 19 more outperform votes than United Fire Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.49% of users gave United Fire Group an outperform vote while only 52.71% of users gave Hilltop an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
United Fire GroupOutperform Votes
224
58.49%
Underperform Votes
159
41.51%
HilltopOutperform Votes
243
52.71%
Underperform Votes
218
47.29%

Summary

United Fire Group and Hilltop tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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UFCS vs. The Competition

MetricUnited Fire GroupFire, marine, & casualty insurance IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$752.80M$48.75B$11.30B$7.84B
Dividend Yield2.20%2.23%5.39%4.01%
P/E Ratio12.4611.5522.4918.71
Price / Sales0.605.5425.7590.72
Price / CashN/A16.8117.6234.64
Price / Book1.022.312.734.23
Net Income$61.96M$4.16B$1.04B$247.34M
7 Day Performance3.13%1.47%0.04%-2.23%
1 Month Performance5.66%2.12%495.74%-5.76%
1 Year Performance36.24%20.34%536.51%-0.83%

United Fire Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
UFCS
United Fire Group
3.5142 of 5 stars
$29.66
-0.2%
$30.00
+1.1%
+36.2%$752.80M$1.25B12.461,090News Coverage
Positive News
HTH
Hilltop
4.6337 of 5 stars
$30.96
+1.4%
$34.00
+9.8%
-2.8%$2.01B$1.12B17.793,820News Coverage
Positive News
STC
Stewart Information Services
1.3517 of 5 stars
$71.90
+2.4%
$79.00
+9.9%
+10.2%$2.00B$2.49B27.667,100Short Interest ↑
Positive News
HCI
HCI Group
2.7164 of 5 stars
$139.46
+2.1%
$140.00
+0.4%
+29.9%$1.50B$749.45M11.65530
EIG
Employers
3.2156 of 5 stars
$49.94
+1.5%
$58.00
+16.1%
+11.0%$1.22B$880.70M10.60680Short Interest ↑
Positive News
PRA
ProAssurance
2.8761 of 5 stars
$23.17
+0.0%
$18.67
-19.4%
+81.0%$1.19B$1.13B27.911,080Short Interest ↑
High Trading Volume
SAFT
Safety Insurance Group
2.1956 of 5 stars
$78.30
+2.3%
N/A-3.7%$1.16B$1.11B15.50550Short Interest ↑
Positive News
AMSF
AMERISAFE
3.1905 of 5 stars
$52.02
+0.6%
$59.50
+14.4%
+5.0%$990.98M$309.11M16.26350Positive News
DGICA
Donegal Group
3.933 of 5 stars
$18.35
+0.7%
N/A+37.3%$653.98M$989.61M12.07880Positive News
UVE
Universal Insurance
4.2584 of 5 stars
$21.90
+2.3%
$25.00
+14.2%
+15.2%$615.16M$1.52B8.901,220Analyst Downgrade
News Coverage
GBLI
Global Indemnity Group
N/A$35.94
-0.2%
N/A+16.2%$491.95M$441.19M12.35360
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This page (NASDAQ:UFCS) was last updated on 3/29/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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