FNF vs. TRV, ALL, ACGL, MKL, WRB, CINF, ERIE, CNA, ORI, and AXS
Should you be buying Fidelity National Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fidelity National Financial include Travelers Companies (TRV), Allstate (ALL), Arch Capital Group (ACGL), Markel Group (MKL), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), Erie Indemnity (ERIE), CNA Financial (CNA), Old Republic International (ORI), and AXIS Capital (AXS). These companies are all part of the "property & casualty insurance" industry.
Fidelity National Financial vs.
Travelers Companies (NYSE:TRV) and Fidelity National Financial (NYSE:FNF) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Travelers Companies has a net margin of 10.77% compared to Fidelity National Financial's net margin of 5.57%. Travelers Companies' return on equity of 19.06% beat Fidelity National Financial's return on equity.
Travelers Companies has a beta of 0.64, meaning that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fidelity National Financial has a beta of 1.39, meaning that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Travelers Companies pays an annual dividend of $4.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Fidelity National Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Travelers Companies pays out 19.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fidelity National Financial pays out 72.7% 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. Travelers Companies has increased its dividend for 20 consecutive years.
82.5% of Travelers Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.2% of Fidelity National Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Travelers Companies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.2% of Fidelity National Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Travelers Companies had 20 more articles in the media than Fidelity National Financial. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Travelers Companies and 20 mentions for Fidelity National Financial. Fidelity National Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Travelers Companies' score of 0.68 indicating that Fidelity National Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Travelers Companies has higher revenue and earnings than Fidelity National Financial. Travelers Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fidelity National Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Travelers Companies currently has a consensus price target of $261.05, suggesting a potential upside of 8.82%. Fidelity National Financial has a consensus price target of $66.40, suggesting a potential upside of 11.60%. Given Fidelity National Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Fidelity National Financial is more favorable than Travelers Companies.
Travelers Companies received 170 more outperform votes than Fidelity National Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.11% of users gave Fidelity National Financial an outperform vote while only 52.93% of users gave Travelers Companies an outperform vote.
Summary
Travelers Companies beats Fidelity National Financial on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:FNF) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
