CB vs. PGR, AIG, TRV, ALL, ACGL, HIG, MKL, WRB, CINF, and EG
Should you be buying Chubb stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chubb include Progressive (PGR), American International Group (AIG), Travelers Companies (TRV), Allstate (ALL), Arch Capital Group (ACGL), The Hartford Financial Services Group (HIG), Markel Group (MKL), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), and Everest Group (EG). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Progressive (NYSE:PGR) and Chubb (NYSE:CB) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Chubb has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Progressive. Chubb is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Progressive, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Chubb received 155 more outperform votes than Progressive when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.42% of users gave Chubb an outperform vote while only 53.12% of users gave Progressive an outperform vote.
Progressive has a beta of 0.34, suggesting that its share price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chubb has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Chubb had 2 more articles in the media than Progressive. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Chubb and 23 mentions for Progressive. Progressive's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Chubb's score of 0.78 indicating that Chubb is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Progressive pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Chubb pays an annual dividend of $3.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Progressive pays out 4.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Chubb pays out 15.3% 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. Chubb has raised its dividend for 30 consecutive years. Chubb is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Progressive presently has a consensus price target of $215.19, indicating a potential upside of 4.75%. Chubb has a consensus price target of $266.70, indicating a potential upside of 1.16%. Given Chubb's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Progressive is more favorable than Chubb.
Chubb has a net margin of 17.99% compared to Chubb's net margin of 8.89%. Chubb's return on equity of 29.43% beat Progressive's return on equity.
85.3% of Progressive shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.8% of Chubb shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Progressive shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Chubb shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Chubb beats Progressive on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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