TRV vs. PGR, ALL, ACGL, MKL, WRB, ERIE, CINF, FNF, CNA, and ORI
Should you be buying Travelers Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Travelers Companies include Progressive (PGR), Allstate (ALL), Arch Capital Group (ACGL), Markel Group (MKL), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Erie Indemnity (ERIE), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), Fidelity National Financial (FNF), CNA Financial (CNA), and Old Republic International (ORI). These companies are all part of the "property & casualty insurance" industry.
Travelers Companies (NYSE:TRV) and Progressive (NYSE:PGR) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, earnings, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Progressive has higher revenue and earnings than Travelers Companies. Travelers Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Progressive, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Travelers Companies presently has a consensus target price of $222.65, suggesting a potential upside of 3.22%. Progressive has a consensus target price of $215.19, suggesting a potential upside of 1.90%. Given Travelers Companies' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Travelers Companies is more favorable than Progressive.
82.5% of Travelers Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.3% of Progressive shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Travelers Companies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Progressive shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Travelers Companies received 14 more outperform votes than Progressive when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.20% of users gave Travelers Companies an outperform vote while only 53.12% of users gave Progressive an outperform vote.
Progressive has a net margin of 8.89% compared to Travelers Companies' net margin of 7.32%. Progressive's return on equity of 29.43% beat Travelers Companies' return on equity.
Travelers Companies pays an annual dividend of $4.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Progressive pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Travelers Companies pays out 29.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Progressive pays out 4.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
In the previous week, Progressive had 2 more articles in the media than Travelers Companies. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Progressive and 18 mentions for Travelers Companies. Progressive's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Travelers Companies' score of 0.60 indicating that Progressive is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Travelers Companies has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Progressive has a beta of 0.34, suggesting that its stock price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Progressive beats Travelers Companies on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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