PGR vs. TRV, ALL, ACGL, CB, AIG, MUFG, C, BLK, UBS, and SCHW
Should you be buying Progressive stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Progressive include Travelers Companies (TRV), Allstate (ALL), Arch Capital Group (ACGL), Chubb (CB), American International Group (AIG), Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Citigroup (C), BlackRock (BLK), UBS Group (UBS), and Charles Schwab (SCHW). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Travelers Companies (NYSE:TRV) and Progressive (NYSE:PGR) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Travelers Companies has a beta of 0.6, indicating that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Progressive has a beta of 0.34, indicating that its stock price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Travelers Companies presently has a consensus target price of $222.65, indicating a potential upside of 5.20%. Progressive has a consensus target price of $215.19, indicating a potential upside of 4.75%. Given Progressive's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Travelers Companies is more favorable than Progressive.
Travelers Companies pays an annual dividend of $4.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Progressive pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Travelers Companies pays out 29.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Progressive pays out 4.1% 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 raised its dividend for 20 consecutive years. Travelers Companies is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Progressive has a net margin of 8.89% compared to Progressive's net margin of 7.32%. Travelers Companies' return on equity of 29.43% beat Progressive's return on equity.
Travelers Companies received 14 more outperform votes than Progressive when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.20% of users gave Travelers Companies an outperform vote while only 53.12% of users gave Progressive an outperform vote.
82.5% of Travelers Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.3% of Progressive shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Travelers Companies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Progressive shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Progressive had 5 more articles in the media than Travelers Companies. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Progressive and 18 mentions for Travelers Companies. Travelers Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Progressive's score of 0.76 indicating that Progressive is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Progressive has higher revenue and earnings than Travelers Companies. Travelers Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Progressive, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Progressive beats Travelers Companies on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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