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UFCS

United Fire Group UFCS

Finance · Property-Casualty Insurers
$57.08+0.44% dayMon Nov 2 close

Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 2% below its 52-week high.

Outside our quality screen, 4% over its Market Value. No fair value estimate for now: our model doesn’t fit it reliably.

Outside our quality screenReports Nov 3
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Fair value est.
n/a
Market Value
$54.67price +4%
Off 52-wk high
−2%
Risk vs market
Lowbeta 0.04

52-week range 97% of the way from its 52-week low to its high

Low $30.23High $57.99

Price $57.08Market Value $54.67

4 bullish · 2 bearish See why

Covered for reference — doesn’t pass our quality screen (market cap $1.5B, under our $20B floor). We show its price, Market Value and DCF, but it never appears in Dips, Top Picks or reversal signals. The screen

Priced in

How much growth the market assumed at the 52-week high, the low and today (a reverse DCF).

52-wk high: P/E 10.7×; 52-wk low: P/E 8.7×; now: P/E 10.6×.

  • 52-wk high$57.9910.7×
  • 52-wk low$30.238.7×
  • Now$57.0810.6×
HighLowNow
Price$57.99Oct 22$30.23Oct 31$57.08
P/E10.7×8.7×10.6×

What this means: a lower P/E than at the high means you pay less for each dollar of profit than buyers did then.

How it’s computed

Banks, insurers and lenders: cash flow includes deposits and loans, so a cash-flow model doesn't fit; we show P/E at each point instead. P/E = that day's close × diluted shares / 12-month net income, using only the filings that were public on that day.

Valuation

What we estimate it's worth, and how it ranks on value vs every stock we cover.

Fair value estimate

Estimate unreliable for UFCS: earnings swing too much for a book-value model (return on equity ranged from -4% to 15% across FY2021–2025 and the latest 12 months). We’d rather show nothing than a made-up number.

Risk vs market

How risk vs market is measured

One year of daily returns (Oct 31 to Nov 2, 252 sessions). Beta = how much UFCS moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.

Low

Has moved mostly independently of the market, but its own price swings are 2.4× the S&P 500’s (it moves on its own news).

Beta vs S&P 500
0.04
Volatility
31% vs 13% SPY
Correlation SPY
0.02
Correlation QQQ
−0.08

Valuation details

MV $54.67

How

Market ValueAverage paid since the Aug 3 filing, 64 trading days
$54.67price +4%
Fair value estimaten/a — Financials model: earnings swing too much for a book-value model (return on equity ranged from -4% to 15% across FY2021–2025 and the latest 12 months)
n/a
FCF valueNot meaningful for banks and insurers
n/a

Fundamentals

The business itself: sales, profits, cash and debt, from SEC filings.

Bull vs bear

Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.

Top bullish points 4 of 5

  1. GrowthDiluted EPS grew 87% to $4.48 in FY2025.

  2. GrowthSales grew 11% to $1.5B over the last 12 months vs the 12 months before (SEC filings).

  3. ProfitabilityReturn on equity of 15% over the last 12 months, up 17 points in two years.

  4. ValuationP/E of 10.6×, below the 13.3× median for the 364 Finance companies we cover.

Top bearish points 2 of 5

  1. ProfitabilityNet margin of 9.6%, below the 22% median for the 350 Finance companies we cover.

  2. RiskReports earnings Nov 3 (consensus EPS $1.19): results can move the price sharply and reset Market Value.

All fundamentals

P/E 10.6 · ROE 15% · Sales +11%

Valuation

P/E
10.6×Finance median 13.3×
Price / FCF
n/acash flow isn't a clean measure for an insurer
FCF yield
n/acash flow isn't a clean measure for an insurer
EV / EBITDA
n/anot meaningful for an insurer
Price / sales
1.02×
Price / book
1.53×
Market cap
$1.5Blisted
Enterprise value
$1.5B

Growth

Revenue, 12 months
$1.5B
Sales growth, 12 months
+11.4%vs the 12 months before
Sales growth, 3 yrs
+12.2%/yrfrom FY2022
Diluted EPS, 12 months
$5.39
EPS growth, last FY
+87.4%
Net income, 12 months
$141M
Net income growth
+53%12 months vs before

Profitability

Gross margin
n/anot meaningful for an insurer
Operating margin
n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Net margin
9.6%
FCF margin
n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Return on equity
15%
Return on invested capital
n/anot meaningful for an insurer

Balance sheet

Cash & short-term inv.
$139M
Total debt
$146M
Net cash
n/anot meaningful for an insurer
Debt / equity
n/adeposits/float make debt/equity not comparable for an insurer
Interest coverage
n/anot meaningful for an insurer

Cash flow & returns

Free cash flow, 12 months
n/anot reported in its SEC filings
FCF growth, 12 months
n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Dividend yield
1.23%$18M paid
Payout ratio
13%
Buybacks, 12 months
n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Share count, 1 year
−1.9%diluted shares vs a year ago
Stock-based comp
$11M

Trailing 12 months to Jun 30, 2026; balance sheet at Jun 30, 2026. From United Fire Group’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.

The business

FCF $0.3B · Sales +14%
  • Free cash flow, 12 months$0.3B
  • Free-cash-flow yield17.3%
  • Return on equity16%
  • Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+14%

Chart & levels

Where the price is vs its key levels and trends.

$30$40$50Jan ’26AprJulOctMV $54.67
Market ValueDrag across the chart to see any day

Key levels

Every level vs today’s $57.08

  1. 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$30.23−47.0%
  2. Market Valueavg paid since Aug 3$54.67−4.2%
  3. PriceMon Nov 2 close$57.08you are here
  4. 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$57.99+1.6%

Momentum & 52-week range

RSI 58 · 5 days −0.9%
$57.08nowMV
52-wk low $30.23high $57.99
Off 52-wk high−1.6%
5 days−0.9%
vs 50-day avg+3.6%
vs 200-day avg+22.2%
RSI (14), last close58
Market cap$2B

Signals

Reversal signal setups, the public ledger and the next earnings date.

Setup & signals

No setup armed

All setups

No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.

Next report

Nov 3

Calendar

  • DateTue Nov 3, after the close
  • Consensus EPS$1.19
  • Year-ago EPS$1.50
  • QuarterSep/2026

From Nasdaq’s earnings calendar. A report resets Market Value.

UFCS is outside our quality screen

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Voices & buzz

Who is talking about it, and how it compares with peers.

Who’s talking about it

Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on United Fire Group in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.

No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 3, 5:14 PM ET.

Compare with peers

Closest in size in Property-Casualty Insurers

Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.