State Auto Financial Corporation (STFC): Price and Financial Metrics

STFC POWR Grades

• Stability is the dimension where STFC ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 91.87% of US stocks.
• STFC's strongest trending metric is Momentum; it's been moving up over the last 178 days.
• STFC's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 3.1% of US stocks).

STFC Stock Summary

• State Auto Financial CORP's stock had its IPO on June 28, 1991, making it an older stock than 83.24% of US equities in our set.
• Over the past twelve months, STFC has reported earnings growth of -312.94%, putting it ahead of just 6.16% of US stocks in our set.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, STFC is more volatile than 84.91% of stocks we're observing.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to State Auto Financial CORP, a group of peers worth examining would be PLUS, LHCG, HMN, ORRF, and PSN.
• STFC's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit State Auto Financial CORP's official web site, go to www.stateauto.com.

STFC Valuation Summary

• STFC's price/earnings ratio is 22.6; this is 105.45% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• STFC's price/sales ratio has moved up 0.1 over the prior 243 months.
• STFC's price/sales ratio has moved up 0.1 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for STFC.

STFC Growth Metrics

The 3 year price growth rate now stands at 64.94%.
• Its 4 year price growth rate is now at 2.83%.
• Its 5 year price growth rate is now at 2.83%.

STFC's revenue has moved up $286,300,000 over the prior 67 months.

The table below shows STFC's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-09-30	1,659.2	-27.4	71.7
2021-06-30	1,659.7	55.5	97.6
2021-03-31	1,679.8	58.1	131.3
2020-12-31	1,482.4	49	13.1
2020-09-30	1,409	21.8	-36
2020-06-30	1,351.9	-9.7	-36.1

STFC's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• STFC has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 45.41% of graded US stocks.
• STFC's asset turnover comes in at 0.537 -- ranking 25th of 133 Insurance stocks.
• MTG, MKL, and PFG are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with STFC.

The table below shows STFC's key quality metrics over time.