CNA Financial (CNA) Competitors

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

Is ALL or CNA 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
Allstate	7.28%	28.20%	4.58%
CNA Financial	6.72%	12.90%	1.99%

Which has more volatility and risk, ALL or CNA?

Allstate has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CNA Financial has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do institutionals and insiders believe in ALL or CNA?

76.5% of Allstate shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.5% of CNA Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Allstate shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of CNA Financial shares are owned 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.

Is ALL or CNA a better dividend stock?

Allstate pays an annual dividend of $3.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. CNA Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Allstate pays out 21.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CNA Financial pays out 50.0% 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 raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years.

Does the media prefer ALL or CNA?

In the previous week, Allstate had 27 more articles in the media than CNA Financial. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Allstate and 3 mentions for CNA Financial. Allstate's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat CNA Financial's score of 0.35 indicating that Allstate is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Allstate	18 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	6 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	3 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
CNA Financial	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Do analysts rate ALL or CNA?

Allstate presently has a consensus target price of $217.94, suggesting a potential upside of 15.58%. CNA Financial has a consensus target price of $50.50, suggesting a potential upside of 1.80%. Given Allstate's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Allstate is more favorable than CNA Financial.

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

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, ALL or CNA?

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
Allstate	$64.11B	0.78	$4.67B	$16.99	11.10
CNA Financial	$14.27B	0.94	$959M	$3.52	14.09

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer ALL or CNA?

Allstate received 700 more outperform votes than CNA Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.41% of users gave Allstate an outperform vote while only 65.85% of users gave CNA Financial an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Allstate	Outperform Votes 997 70.41%	Underperform Votes 419 29.59%
CNA Financial	Outperform Votes 297 65.85%	Underperform Votes 154 34.15%

Summary

Allstate beats CNA Financial on 17 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.