CNA Financial (CNA) Competitors

CNA Financial (NYSE:CNA) and Allstate (NYSE:ALL) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, community ranking and institutional ownership.

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in CNA or ALL?

98.4% of CNA Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.5% of Allstate shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of CNA Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Allstate shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Do analysts prefer CNA or ALL?

CNA Financial currently has a consensus target price of $50.50, suggesting a potential upside of 4.43%. Allstate has a consensus target price of $219.27, suggesting a potential upside of 12.72%. Given Allstate's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Allstate is more favorable than CNA Financial.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CNA Financial	1 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.50
Allstate	1 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	13 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.88

Does the media prefer CNA or ALL?

In the previous week, Allstate had 33 more articles in the media than CNA Financial. MarketBeat recorded 38 mentions for Allstate and 5 mentions for CNA Financial. CNA Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Allstate's score of 1.01 indicating that CNA Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
CNA Financial	3 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Allstate	25 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	7 Neutral mention(s)	4 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has better earnings & valuation, CNA or ALL?

Allstate has higher revenue and earnings than CNA Financial. Allstate is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CNA Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CNA Financial	$14.00B	0.93	$959M	$3.52	13.74
Allstate	$64.12B	0.80	$4.67B	$16.99	11.45

Which has more volatility and risk, CNA or ALL?

CNA Financial has a beta of 0.47, meaning that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Allstate has a beta of 0.36, meaning that its share price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is CNA or ALL more profitable?

Allstate has a net margin of 7.28% compared to CNA Financial's net margin of 6.72%. Allstate's return on equity of 28.20% beat CNA Financial's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CNA Financial	6.72%	12.90%	1.99%
Allstate	7.28%	28.20%	4.58%

Is CNA or ALL a better dividend stock?

CNA Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Allstate pays an annual dividend of $4.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. CNA Financial pays out 52.3% 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.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in CNA or ALL?

Allstate received 704 more outperform votes than CNA Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.39% of users gave Allstate an outperform vote while only 65.85% of users gave CNA Financial an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
CNA Financial	Outperform Votes 297 65.85%	Underperform Votes 154 34.15%
Allstate	Outperform Votes 1001 70.39%	Underperform Votes 421 29.61%

Summary

Allstate beats CNA Financial on 16 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.