PGR vs. TRV, ALL, ACGL, WRB, MKL, CINF, ERIE, FNF, CNA, and ORI
Should you be buying Progressive stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Progressive include Travelers Companies (TRV), Allstate (ALL), Arch Capital Group (ACGL), W.R. Berkley (WRB), Markel Group (MKL), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), Erie Indemnity (ERIE), Fidelity National Financial (FNF), CNA Financial (CNA), and Old Republic International (ORI). These companies are all part of the "property & casualty insurance" industry.
Progressive vs. Its Competitors
Travelers Companies (NYSE:TRV) and Progressive (NYSE:PGR) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends and profitability.
Travelers Companies presently has a consensus target price of $271.11, suggesting a potential upside of 3.00%. Progressive has a consensus target price of $288.88, suggesting a potential upside of 9.49%. Given Progressive's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Progressive is more favorable than Travelers Companies.
Progressive has higher revenue and earnings than Travelers Companies. Travelers Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Progressive, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Travelers Companies pays an annual dividend of $4.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Progressive pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Travelers Companies pays out 24.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Progressive pays out 2.7% 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 21 consecutive years. Travelers Companies is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Travelers Companies has a beta of 0.53, suggesting that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Progressive has a beta of 0.4, suggesting that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500.
82.5% of Travelers Companies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.3% of Progressive shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Travelers Companies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Progressive shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Progressive had 26 more articles in the media than Travelers Companies. MarketBeat recorded 62 mentions for Progressive and 36 mentions for Travelers Companies. Travelers Companies' average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Progressive's score of 1.04 indicating that Travelers Companies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Progressive has a net margin of 11.10% compared to Travelers Companies' net margin of 9.09%. Progressive's return on equity of 33.50% beat Travelers Companies' return on equity.
Summary
Progressive beats Travelers Companies on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NYSE:PGR) was last updated on 6/29/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
