TRV vs. ALL, ACGL, WRB, CINF, PGR, AIG, HIG, EG, L, and CB
Should you be buying Travelers Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Travelers Companies include Allstate (ALL), Arch Capital Group (ACGL), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), Progressive (PGR), American International Group (AIG), The Hartford Financial Services Group (HIG), Everest Group (EG), Loews (L), and Chubb (CB). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Allstate (NYSE:ALL) and Travelers Companies (NYSE:TRV) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Travelers Companies has a net margin of 7.32% compared to Travelers Companies' net margin of 2.31%. Travelers Companies' return on equity of 14.44% beat Allstate's return on equity.
In the previous week, Travelers Companies had 10 more articles in the media than Allstate. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Travelers Companies and 13 mentions for Allstate. Travelers Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Allstate's score of 0.53 indicating that Allstate is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Allstate presently has a consensus target price of $174.59, suggesting a potential upside of 6.78%. Travelers Companies has a consensus target price of $222.65, suggesting a potential upside of 5.99%. Given Travelers Companies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Allstate is more favorable than Travelers Companies.
Allstate received 395 more outperform votes than Travelers Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.09% of users gave Allstate an outperform vote while only 54.20% of users gave Travelers Companies an outperform vote.
Allstate pays an annual dividend of $3.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Travelers Companies pays an annual dividend of $4.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Allstate pays out 81.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Travelers Companies pays out 31.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Allstate has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years and Travelers Companies has increased its dividend for 20 consecutive years.
76.5% of Allstate shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.4% of Travelers Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Allstate shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Travelers Companies shares are owned by 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 has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Allstate. Travelers Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Allstate, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Allstate has a beta of 0.51, suggesting that its stock price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Travelers Companies has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Allstate beats Travelers Companies on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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