BRK.A vs. CB, MFC, SLF, WTW, PUK, PFG, CRBG, RYAN, EQH, and AEG
Should you be buying Berkshire Hathaway stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Berkshire Hathaway include Chubb (CB), Manulife Financial (MFC), Sun Life Financial (SLF), Willis Towers Watson Public (WTW), Prudential (PUK), Principal Financial Group (PFG), Corebridge Financial (CRBG), Ryan Specialty (RYAN), Equitable (EQH), and Aegon (AEG). These companies are all part of the "insurance" industry.
Berkshire Hathaway vs.
Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A) and Chubb (NYSE:CB) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Chubb received 411 more outperform votes than Berkshire Hathaway when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.77% of users gave Berkshire Hathaway an outperform vote while only 63.08% of users gave Chubb an outperform vote.
23.0% of Berkshire Hathaway shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.8% of Chubb shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Berkshire Hathaway shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Chubb shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Berkshire Hathaway has a net margin of 28.89% compared to Chubb's net margin of 16.63%. Chubb's return on equity of 13.75% beat Berkshire Hathaway's return on equity.
Chubb has a consensus target price of $295.73, suggesting a potential upside of 10.68%. Given Chubb's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Chubb is more favorable than Berkshire Hathaway.
In the previous week, Chubb had 13 more articles in the media than Berkshire Hathaway. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Chubb and 27 mentions for Berkshire Hathaway. Chubb's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Berkshire Hathaway's score of 0.27 indicating that Chubb is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Berkshire Hathaway has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chubb has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Berkshire Hathaway has higher revenue and earnings than Chubb. Berkshire Hathaway is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chubb, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Chubb beats Berkshire Hathaway on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:BRK.A) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
