BRK.B vs. PGR, TRV, ALL, ACGL, MKL, WRB, ERIE, CINF, FNF, and CNA
Should you be buying Berkshire Hathaway stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Berkshire Hathaway include Progressive (PGR), Travelers Companies (TRV), Allstate (ALL), Arch Capital Group (ACGL), Markel Group (MKL), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Erie Indemnity (ERIE), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), Fidelity National Financial (FNF), and CNA Financial (CNA). These companies are all part of the "property & casualty insurance" industry.
Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.B) and Progressive (NYSE:PGR) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability and earnings.
Berkshire Hathaway currently has a consensus price target of $432.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.42%. Progressive has a consensus price target of $215.19, suggesting a potential upside of 1.25%. Given Berkshire Hathaway's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Berkshire Hathaway is more favorable than Progressive.
39.3% of Berkshire Hathaway shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.3% of Progressive shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.1% of Berkshire Hathaway shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Progressive shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Berkshire Hathaway has higher revenue and earnings than Progressive. Berkshire Hathaway is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Progressive, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Progressive had 11 more articles in the media than Berkshire Hathaway. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Progressive and 0 mentions for Berkshire Hathaway. Progressive's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Berkshire Hathaway's score of 0.00 indicating that Progressive is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Berkshire Hathaway has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Progressive has a beta of 0.35, meaning that its stock price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Berkshire Hathaway has a net margin of 19.90% compared to Progressive's net margin of 8.89%. Progressive's return on equity of 29.43% beat Berkshire Hathaway's return on equity.
Progressive received 283 more outperform votes than Berkshire Hathaway when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.92% of users gave Berkshire Hathaway an outperform vote while only 53.12% of users gave Progressive an outperform vote.
Summary
Berkshire Hathaway beats Progressive on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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