PGR vs. TRV, ALL, ACGL, CB, AIG, MUFG, C, SCHW, BLK, and HDB
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), Charles Schwab (SCHW), BlackRock (BLK), and HDFC Bank (HDB). 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 better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
In the previous week, Travelers Companies had 10 more articles in the media than Progressive. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Travelers Companies and 13 mentions for Progressive. Progressive's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Travelers Companies' score of 0.72 indicating that Travelers Companies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Travelers Companies currently has a consensus target price of $223.47, suggesting a potential upside of 4.23%. Progressive has a consensus target price of $211.88, suggesting a potential upside of 1.37%. Given Progressive's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Travelers Companies is more favorable than Progressive.
Travelers Companies has a beta of 0.6, meaning that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Progressive has a beta of 0.34, meaning that its share price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
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 insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Progressive 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.
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.
Travelers Companies received 16 more outperform votes than Progressive when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.21% of users gave Travelers Companies an outperform vote while only 52.98% of users gave Progressive an outperform vote.
Summary
Travelers Companies and Progressive tied by winning 11 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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