BRK.B vs. BRK.A, JPM, BAC, PGR, TRV, ALL, ACGL, WRB, CINF, and CNA
Should you be buying Berkshire Hathaway stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Berkshire Hathaway include Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Bank of America (BAC), Progressive (PGR), Travelers Companies (TRV), Allstate (ALL), Arch Capital Group (ACGL), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), and CNA Financial (CNA). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A) and Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.B) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, risk and profitability.
Berkshire Hathaway has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Berkshire Hathaway has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Berkshire Hathaway received 45 more outperform votes than Berkshire Hathaway when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.77% of users gave Berkshire Hathaway an outperform vote while only 67.84% of users gave Berkshire Hathaway an outperform vote.
Berkshire Hathaway presently has a consensus target price of $621,591.00, indicating a potential downside of 1.19%. Berkshire Hathaway has a consensus target price of $414.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.78%. Given Berkshire Hathaway's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Berkshire Hathaway is more favorable than Berkshire Hathaway.
Berkshire Hathaway is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Berkshire Hathaway, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Berkshire Hathaway and Berkshire Hathaway both had 3 articles in the media. Berkshire Hathaway's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Berkshire Hathaway's score of 0.30 indicating that Berkshire Hathaway is being referred to more favorably in the media.
23.0% of Berkshire Hathaway shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.3% of Berkshire Hathaway shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Berkshire Hathaway shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.1% of Berkshire Hathaway shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Berkshire Hathaway beats Berkshire Hathaway on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
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