ALL vs. PGR, TRV, ACGL, WRB, MKL, CINF, ERIE, FNF, CNA, and ORI
Should you be buying Allstate stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Allstate include Progressive (PGR), Travelers Companies (TRV), Arch Capital Group (ACGL), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Markel Group (MKL), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), Erie Indemnity (ERIE), Fidelity National Financial (FNF), CNA Financial (CNA), and Old Republic International (ORI). These companies are all part of the "property & casualty insurance" industry.
Allstate vs.
Progressive (NYSE:PGR) and Allstate (NYSE:ALL) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Progressive pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Allstate pays an annual dividend of $4.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Progressive pays out 2.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Allstate pays out 23.5% 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. Allstate has increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years. Allstate is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Progressive has higher revenue and earnings than Allstate. Allstate is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Progressive, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
85.3% of Progressive shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.5% of Allstate shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Progressive shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Allstate shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Progressive had 17 more articles in the media than Allstate. MarketBeat recorded 55 mentions for Progressive and 38 mentions for Allstate. Allstate's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Progressive's score of 1.02 indicating that Allstate is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Allstate received 389 more outperform votes than Progressive when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.39% of users gave Allstate an outperform vote while only 54.64% of users gave Progressive an outperform vote.
Progressive presently has a consensus price target of $283.71, suggesting a potential upside of 2.81%. Allstate has a consensus price target of $219.27, suggesting a potential upside of 12.72%. Given Allstate's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Allstate is more favorable than Progressive.
Progressive has a net margin of 11.25% compared to Allstate's net margin of 7.28%. Progressive's return on equity of 33.79% beat Allstate's return on equity.
Progressive has a beta of 0.38, indicating that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Allstate has a beta of 0.36, indicating that its stock price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Progressive and Allstate tied by winning 11 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:ALL) was last updated on 4/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
