CINF vs. WRB, MKL, CNA, RLI, SIGI, AXS, THG, WTM, ACGL, and ALL
Should you be buying Cincinnati Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cincinnati Financial include W. R. Berkley (WRB), Markel Group (MKL), CNA Financial (CNA), RLI (RLI), Selective Insurance Group (SIGI), AXIS Capital (AXS), The Hanover Insurance Group (THG), White Mountains Insurance Group (WTM), Arch Capital Group (ACGL), and Allstate (ALL). These companies are all part of the "property & casualty insurance" industry.
W. R. Berkley (NYSE:WRB) and Cincinnati Financial (NASDAQ:CINF) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Cincinnati Financial has a net margin of 22.16% compared to Cincinnati Financial's net margin of 12.23%. Cincinnati Financial's return on equity of 20.51% beat W. R. Berkley's return on equity.
W. R. Berkley currently has a consensus price target of $90.38, indicating a potential upside of 13.95%. Cincinnati Financial has a consensus price target of $126.00, indicating a potential upside of 4.95%. Given Cincinnati Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe W. R. Berkley is more favorable than Cincinnati Financial.
W. R. Berkley pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Cincinnati Financial pays an annual dividend of $3.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. W. R. Berkley pays out 7.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cincinnati Financial pays out 21.6% 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. W. R. Berkley has increased its dividend for 22 consecutive years and Cincinnati Financial has increased its dividend for 64 consecutive years. Cincinnati Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
W. R. Berkley has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cincinnati Financial has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, W. R. Berkley had 4 more articles in the media than Cincinnati Financial. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for W. R. Berkley and 12 mentions for Cincinnati Financial. W. R. Berkley's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Cincinnati Financial's score of 0.40 indicating that Cincinnati Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cincinnati Financial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than W. R. Berkley. Cincinnati Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than W. R. Berkley, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
68.8% of W. R. Berkley shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.2% of Cincinnati Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.9% of W. R. Berkley shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Cincinnati Financial shares are owned 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.
W. R. Berkley received 58 more outperform votes than Cincinnati Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.14% of users gave W. R. Berkley an outperform vote while only 50.60% of users gave Cincinnati Financial an outperform vote.
Summary
W. R. Berkley beats Cincinnati Financial on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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