Fidelity National Financial (FNF) Competitors

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 analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, earnings, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment and profitability.

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of TRV or FNF?

82.4% 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, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more risk and volatility, TRV or FNF?

Travelers Companies has a beta of 0.48, suggesting that its stock price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fidelity National Financial has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Do analysts prefer TRV or FNF?

Travelers Companies presently has a consensus target price of $263.37, indicating a potential upside of 5.10%. Fidelity National Financial has a consensus target price of $71.60, indicating a potential upside of 15.48%. Given Fidelity National Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Fidelity National Financial is more favorable than Travelers Companies.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Travelers Companies	3 Sell rating(s)	12 Hold rating(s)	7 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.18
Fidelity National Financial	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.80

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer TRV or FNF?

Travelers Companies received 169 more outperform votes than Fidelity National Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.08% of users gave Fidelity National Financial an outperform vote while only 52.73% of users gave Travelers Companies an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Travelers Companies	Outperform Votes 590 52.73%	Underperform Votes 529 47.27%
Fidelity National Financial	Outperform Votes 421 64.08%	Underperform Votes 236 35.92%

Is TRV or FNF a better dividend stock?

Travelers Companies pays an annual dividend of $4.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Fidelity National Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Travelers Companies pays out 19.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fidelity National Financial pays out 43.0% 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. Travelers Companies has raised its dividend for 20 consecutive years.

Does the media refer more to TRV or FNF?

In the previous week, Travelers Companies had 26 more articles in the media than Fidelity National Financial. MarketBeat recorded 44 mentions for Travelers Companies and 18 mentions for Fidelity National Financial. Fidelity National Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat Travelers Companies' score of 0.91 indicating that Fidelity National Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Travelers Companies	20 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	11 Neutral mention(s)	5 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Fidelity National Financial	11 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	5 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is TRV or FNF more profitable?

Travelers Companies has a net margin of 10.77% compared to Fidelity National Financial's net margin of 9.28%. Travelers Companies' return on equity of 19.06% beat Fidelity National Financial's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Travelers Companies	10.77%	19.06%	3.83%
Fidelity National Financial	9.28%	15.36%	1.42%

Which has higher valuation and earnings, TRV or FNF?

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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Travelers Companies	$46.43B	1.22	$5.00B	$21.47	11.67
Fidelity National Financial	$13.36B	1.28	$517M	$4.65	13.33

Summary

Travelers Companies beats Fidelity National Financial on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.