united fire group inc shares fell 77 to 2857 after piper sandler cut the company to underweight from neutral the investment bank dropped the companys price target to 25 per share from 30 the insurance company has been on a slow upward climb recently and is up 42 year to date united fire group is set to release fourthquarter earnings results on wednesday investors will look to see if rising inflation and declining asset values impacted the company in the period as they did in the third quarter when the insurance company saw declines in revenue and profit