TRV vs. PGR, ALL, ACGL, MKL, WRB, ERIE, CINF, FNF, CNA, and ORI
Should you be buying Travelers Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Travelers Companies include Progressive (PGR), Allstate (ALL), Arch Capital Group (ACGL), Markel Group (MKL), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Erie Indemnity (ERIE), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), Fidelity National Financial (FNF), CNA Financial (CNA), and Old Republic International (ORI). These companies are all part of the "property & casualty insurance" industry.
Progressive (NYSE:PGR) and Travelers Companies (NYSE:TRV) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
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.
85.3% of Progressive shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.5% of Travelers Companies shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Progressive shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Travelers Companies shares are held 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.
Progressive has a beta of 0.35, indicating that its share price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Travelers Companies has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
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.
In the previous week, Progressive had 8 more articles in the media than Travelers Companies. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Progressive and 6 mentions for Travelers Companies. Progressive's average media sentiment score of 1.77 beat Travelers Companies' score of 1.00 indicating that Travelers Companies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Progressive presently has a consensus price target of $215.19, suggesting a potential upside of 0.93%. Travelers Companies has a consensus price target of $222.65, suggesting a potential upside of 6.19%. Given Progressive's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Travelers Companies is more favorable than Progressive.
Progressive pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Travelers Companies pays an annual dividend of $4.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Progressive pays out 4.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Travelers Companies pays out 29.7% 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.
Summary
Progressive beats Travelers Companies on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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