ACGL vs. ALL, TRV, MKL, WRB, CINF, CNA, PGR, HIG, AIG, and EG
Should you be buying Arch Capital Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arch Capital Group include Allstate (ALL), Travelers Companies (TRV), Markel Group (MKL), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), CNA Financial (CNA), Progressive (PGR), The Hartford Financial Services Group (HIG), American International Group (AIG), and Everest Group (EG). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Allstate (NYSE:ALL) and Arch Capital Group (NASDAQ:ACGL) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, dividends and community ranking.
Allstate presently has a consensus price target of $174.59, suggesting a potential upside of 6.85%. Arch Capital Group has a consensus price target of $100.67, suggesting a potential downside of 1.73%. Given Arch Capital Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Allstate is more favorable than Arch Capital Group.
Arch Capital Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Allstate. Arch Capital Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Allstate, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Allstate has a beta of 0.51, meaning that its stock price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Arch Capital Group has a beta of 0.57, meaning that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Arch Capital Group has a net margin of 33.65% compared to Arch Capital Group's net margin of 2.31%. Allstate's return on equity of 21.85% beat Arch Capital Group's return on equity.
Allstate received 522 more outperform votes than Arch Capital Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.09% of users gave Allstate an outperform vote while only 58.18% of users gave Arch Capital Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Arch Capital Group had 7 more articles in the media than Allstate. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Arch Capital Group and 12 mentions for Allstate. Allstate's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Arch Capital Group's score of 0.70 indicating that Arch Capital Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
76.5% of Allstate shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.1% of Arch Capital Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Allstate shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Arch Capital Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Arch Capital Group beats Allstate on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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