WRB vs. TRV, ALL, ACGL, MKL, ERIE, CINF, FNF, CNA, ORI, and RLI
Should you be buying W. R. Berkley stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of W. R. Berkley include Travelers Companies (TRV), Allstate (ALL), Arch Capital Group (ACGL), Markel Group (MKL), Erie Indemnity (ERIE), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), Fidelity National Financial (FNF), 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 W. R. Berkley (NYSE:WRB) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
82.5% of Travelers Companies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.8% of W. R. Berkley shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Travelers Companies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 23.0% of W. R. Berkley shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Travelers Companies presently has a consensus price target of $222.65, suggesting a potential upside of 5.84%. W. R. Berkley has a consensus price target of $90.38, suggesting a potential upside of 15.02%. Given Travelers Companies' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe W. R. Berkley is more favorable than Travelers Companies.
Travelers Companies pays an annual dividend of $4.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. W. R. Berkley pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Travelers Companies pays out 29.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. W. R. Berkley pays out 7.8% 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 20 consecutive years and W. R. Berkley has increased its dividend for 22 consecutive years.
Travelers Companies has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, W. R. Berkley has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Travelers Companies had 15 more articles in the media than W. R. Berkley. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Travelers Companies and 5 mentions for W. R. Berkley. Travelers Companies' average media sentiment score of 1.55 beat W. R. Berkley's score of 0.61 indicating that W. R. Berkley is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Travelers Companies received 255 more outperform votes than W. R. Berkley when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.20% of users gave Travelers Companies an outperform vote while only 51.14% of users gave W. R. Berkley an outperform vote.
Travelers Companies has higher revenue and earnings than W. R. Berkley. W. R. Berkley is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Travelers Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
W. R. Berkley has a net margin of 12.23% compared to W. R. Berkley's net margin of 7.32%. Travelers Companies' return on equity of 20.51% beat W. R. Berkley's return on equity.
Summary
Travelers Companies and W. R. Berkley tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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