ACGL vs. ALL, TRV, WRB, MKL, CINF, CNA, PGR, HIG, EG, and AIG
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), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Markel Group (MKL), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), CNA Financial (CNA), Progressive (PGR), The Hartford Financial Services Group (HIG), Everest Group (EG), and American International Group (AIG). 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 investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Allstate received 521 more outperform votes than Arch Capital Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.09% of users gave Allstate an outperform vote while only 58.28% of users gave Arch Capital Group an outperform vote.
76.5% of Allstate shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.1% of Arch Capital Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Allstate shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Arch Capital Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Allstate presently has a consensus price target of $174.18, indicating a potential upside of 3.57%. Arch Capital Group has a consensus price target of $100.67, indicating a potential upside of 6.63%. Given Allstate's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Arch Capital Group is more favorable than Allstate.
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.
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, suggesting that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Arch Capital Group has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Arch Capital Group had 13 more articles in the media than Allstate. MarketBeat recorded 43 mentions for Arch Capital Group and 30 mentions for Allstate. Allstate's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Arch Capital Group's score of 0.75 indicating that Arch Capital Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Arch Capital Group beats Allstate on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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