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 contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and valuation.

Is CNA or ALL a better dividend stock?

CNA Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Allstate pays an annual dividend of $3.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. CNA Financial pays out 36.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Allstate pays out 23.8% 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 14 consecutive years.

Which has more risk & volatility, CNA or ALL?

CNA Financial has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Allstate has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do analysts rate CNA or ALL?

CNA Financial currently has a consensus price target of $51.00, indicating a potential upside of 3.48%. Allstate has a consensus price target of $218.13, indicating a potential upside of 13.25%. Given Allstate's stronger consensus rating and higher probable 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

Which has better earnings and valuation, CNA or ALL?

CNA Financial has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Allstate. CNA Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Allstate, 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	$13.30B	1.00	$1.21B	$4.80	10.27
Allstate	$57.09B	0.89	-$188M	$15.44	12.47

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of CNA or ALL?

98.5% of CNA Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.5% of Allstate shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of CNA Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Allstate shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer CNA or ALL?

Allstate received 699 more outperform votes than CNA Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.39% of users gave Allstate an outperform vote while only 66.15% of users gave CNA Financial an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
CNA Financial	Outperform Votes 297 66.15%	Underperform Votes 152 33.85%
Allstate	Outperform Votes 996 70.39%	Underperform Votes 419 29.61%

Does the media refer more to CNA or ALL?

In the previous week, Allstate had 23 more articles in the media than CNA Financial. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Allstate and 3 mentions for CNA Financial. CNA Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Allstate's score of 0.49 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	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Allstate	17 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	6 Negative mention(s)	2 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Is CNA or ALL more profitable?

CNA Financial has a net margin of 9.26% compared to Allstate's net margin of 6.77%. Allstate's return on equity of 26.67% beat CNA Financial's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CNA Financial	9.26%	13.30%	2.04%
Allstate	6.77%	26.67%	4.18%

Summary

Allstate beats CNA Financial on 15 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.