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

STFC POWR Grades

• STFC scores best on the Stability dimension, with a Stability rank ahead of 58.31% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for STFC is in Growth, which has been heading down over the past 47 weeks.
• STFC ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 2nd percentile.

STFC Stock Summary

• The price/operating cash flow metric for State Auto Financial CORP is higher than 88.56% of stocks in our set with a positive cash flow.
• In terms of twelve month growth in earnings before interest and taxes, State Auto Financial CORP is reporting a growth rate of -394.38%; that's higher than merely 5.53% of US stocks.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, STFC is more volatile than 98.58% of stocks we're observing.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to State Auto Financial CORP are CVR, BSET, WAFU, EVK, and NPK.
• Visit STFC's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's 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 2 year revenue growth rate now stands at -10.24%.
• Its year over year price growth rate is now at -12.2%.
• Its 4 year price growth rate is now at 2.83%.

STFC's revenue has moved up $285,400,000 over the prior 33 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
2021-06-30	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
2020-03-31	1,257.2	-41.5	-76.6

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 45.29% of graded US stocks.
• STFC's asset turnover comes in at 0.538 -- ranking 25th of 133 Insurance stocks.
• BHF, ORI, and MTG are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with STFC.

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