CB vs. PGR, AIG, TRV, ALL, ACGL, HIG, MKL, WRB, CINF, and EG
Should you be buying Chubb stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chubb include Progressive (PGR), American International Group (AIG), Travelers Companies (TRV), Allstate (ALL), Arch Capital Group (ACGL), The Hartford Financial Services Group (HIG), Markel Group (MKL), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), and Everest Group (EG). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Chubb (NYSE:CB) and Progressive (NYSE:PGR) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, profitability, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings and institutional ownership.
Chubb has a net margin of 17.99% compared to Progressive's net margin of 8.89%. Progressive's return on equity of 29.43% beat Chubb's return on equity.
Chubb has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Progressive. Chubb is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Progressive, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Chubb has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Progressive has a beta of 0.34, suggesting that its share price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Chubb received 155 more outperform votes than Progressive when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.42% of users gave Chubb an outperform vote while only 53.12% of users gave Progressive an outperform vote.
Chubb presently has a consensus target price of $266.70, suggesting a potential upside of 0.60%. Progressive has a consensus target price of $215.19, suggesting a potential upside of 3.99%. Given Progressive's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Progressive is more favorable than Chubb.
In the previous week, Progressive had 1 more articles in the media than Chubb. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Progressive and 16 mentions for Chubb. Progressive's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Chubb's score of 0.74 indicating that Progressive is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Chubb pays an annual dividend of $3.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Progressive pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Chubb pays out 15.3% 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.
83.8% of Chubb shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.3% of Progressive shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Chubb shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Progressive shares are owned 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.
Summary
Chubb beats Progressive on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding CB and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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