State Auto Financial Corporation is a insurance - property & casualty business based in the US. State Auto Financial Corporation shares (STFC) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. State Auto Financial Corporation employs 2,025 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $1.7 billion.
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| 52-week range | $0.00 - $0.00 |
|---|---|
| 50-day moving average | $51.75 |
| 200-day moving average | $46.83 |
| Wall St. target price | $52.00 |
| PE ratio | 32.3244 |
| Dividend yield | $0.4 (0.77%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $1.61 |
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Valuing State Auto Financial Corporation stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of State Auto Financial Corporation's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
State Auto Financial Corporation's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 32x. In other words, State Auto Financial Corporation shares trade at around 32x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
State Auto Financial Corporation's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $98.2 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a State Auto Financial Corporation's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $1.7 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 5.45% |
| Gross profit TTM | $28.4 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 1.84% |
| Return on equity TTM | 7.55% |
| Profit margin | 4.32% |
| Book value | $21.51 |
| Market Capitalization | $2.3 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 24.39% of net profits
Recently State Auto Financial Corporation has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), State Auto Financial Corporation shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In State Auto Financial Corporation's case, that would currently equate to about $0.4 per share.
While State Auto Financial Corporation's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that State Auto Financial Corporation is investing more in its future growth.
State Auto Financial Corporation's most recent dividend payout was on 27 December 2021. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 13 December 2021 (the "ex-dividend date").
State Auto Financial Corporation's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 8 July 1998 . So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your State Auto Financial Corporation shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for State Auto Financial Corporation shares which in turn could have impacted State Auto Financial Corporation's share price.
Over the last 12 months, State Auto Financial Corporation's shares have ranged in value from as little as $0 up to $0. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while State Auto Financial Corporation's is 0.3585. This would suggest that State Auto Financial Corporation's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
State Auto Financial Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in writing personal and business insurance products in the United States. It operates through Personal Insurance, Commercial Insurance, and Investment Operations segments. The Personal Insurance segment primarily provides personal automobile, homeowners, and other personal insurance products. The commercial insurance segment primarily provides commercial automobile, commercial multi-peril, fire and allied, general liability, and workers' compensation insurance covering small-to-medium sized commercial exposures in the commercial insurance market, as well as farm and ranch insurance products. The Investment Operations segment provides investment management services to affiliated insurance companies. The company markets its products primarily through independent agencies, including retail agencies and wholesale brokers. The company was founded in 1950 and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.
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