L vs. AIG, HIG, AFG, AIZ, KMPR, GNW, HMN, TRV, ALL, and ACGL
Should you be buying Loews stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Loews include American International Group (AIG), The Hartford Financial Services Group (HIG), American Financial Group (AFG), Assurant (AIZ), Kemper (KMPR), Genworth Financial (GNW), Horace Mann Educators (HMN), Travelers Companies (TRV), Allstate (ALL), and Arch Capital Group (ACGL). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Loews vs.
Loews (NYSE:L) and American International Group (NYSE:AIG) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability and valuation.
Loews currently has a consensus price target of $112.00, suggesting a potential upside of 32.78%. American International Group has a consensus price target of $84.40, suggesting a potential upside of 15.92%. Given Loews' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Loews is more favorable than American International Group.
American International Group has higher revenue and earnings than Loews. American International Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Loews, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
58.3% of Loews shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.6% of American International Group shares are held by institutional investors. 18.7% of Loews shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of American International Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Loews pays an annual dividend of $0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. American International Group pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Loews pays out 3.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. American International Group pays out -47.2% 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. American International Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Loews has a net margin of 9.71% compared to American International Group's net margin of -6.19%. Loews' return on equity of 9.70% beat American International Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, American International Group had 6 more articles in the media than Loews. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for American International Group and 1 mentions for Loews. Loews' average media sentiment score of 0.22 beat American International Group's score of 0.13 indicating that Loews is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Loews has a beta of 0.83, indicating that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American International Group has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
American International Group received 600 more outperform votes than Loews when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.71% of users gave American International Group an outperform vote while only 60.80% of users gave Loews an outperform vote.
Summary
Loews and American International Group tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:L) was last updated on 1/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
