FNF vs. TRV, ALL, ACGL, MKL, WRB, ERIE, CINF, CNA, ORI, and RLI
Should you be buying Fidelity National Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fidelity National Financial include Travelers Companies (TRV), Allstate (ALL), Arch Capital Group (ACGL), Markel Group (MKL), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Erie Indemnity (ERIE), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), CNA Financial (CNA), Old Republic International (ORI), and RLI (RLI). These companies are all part of the "property & casualty insurance" industry.
Travelers Companies (NYSE:TRV) and Fidelity National Financial (NYSE:FNF) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.
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.
Travelers Companies pays an annual dividend of $4.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Fidelity National Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Travelers Companies pays out 29.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fidelity National Financial pays out 63.2% 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. Travelers Companies has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Travelers Companies presently has a consensus target price of $222.65, suggesting a potential upside of 4.55%. Fidelity National Financial has a consensus target price of $55.80, suggesting a potential upside of 13.35%. Given Travelers Companies' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Fidelity National Financial is more favorable than Travelers Companies.
Travelers Companies has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fidelity National Financial has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Travelers Companies received 156 more outperform votes than Fidelity National Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.58% of users gave Fidelity National Financial an outperform vote while only 54.20% of users gave Travelers Companies an outperform vote.
82.5% 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 insiders. Comparatively, 5.2% of Fidelity National Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Travelers Companies has a net margin of 7.32% compared to Travelers Companies' net margin of 6.55%. Travelers Companies' return on equity of 14.24% beat Fidelity National Financial's return on equity.
In the previous week, Fidelity National Financial had 1 more articles in the media than Travelers Companies. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Fidelity National Financial and 7 mentions for Travelers Companies. Fidelity National Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.73 beat Travelers Companies' score of 0.98 indicating that Travelers Companies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Travelers Companies beats Fidelity National Financial on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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