CINF vs. TRV, ALL, ACGL, WRB, MKL, ERIE, FNF, CNA, ORI, and AXS
Should you be buying Cincinnati Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cincinnati Financial include Travelers Companies (TRV), Allstate (ALL), Arch Capital Group (ACGL), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Markel Group (MKL), Erie Indemnity (ERIE), Fidelity National Financial (FNF), CNA Financial (CNA), Old Republic International (ORI), and AXIS Capital (AXS). These companies are all part of the "property & casualty insurance" industry.
Cincinnati Financial vs.
Cincinnati Financial (NASDAQ:CINF) and Travelers Companies (NYSE:TRV) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Cincinnati Financial currently has a consensus target price of $147.40, suggesting a potential upside of 0.24%. Travelers Companies has a consensus target price of $271.11, suggesting a potential upside of 3.12%. Given Travelers Companies' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Travelers Companies is more favorable than Cincinnati Financial.
Travelers Companies received 330 more outperform votes than Cincinnati Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.80% of users gave Travelers Companies an outperform vote while only 51.26% of users gave Cincinnati Financial an outperform vote.
65.2% of Cincinnati Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.4% of Travelers Companies shares are held by institutional investors. 2.8% of Cincinnati Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Travelers Companies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Cincinnati Financial has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Travelers Companies has a beta of 0.53, indicating that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Travelers Companies has higher revenue and earnings than Cincinnati Financial. Travelers Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cincinnati Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Travelers Companies had 20 more articles in the media than Cincinnati Financial. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Travelers Companies and 8 mentions for Cincinnati Financial. Cincinnati Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat Travelers Companies' score of 0.95 indicating that Cincinnati Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Cincinnati Financial pays an annual dividend of $3.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Travelers Companies pays an annual dividend of $4.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Cincinnati Financial pays out 37.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Travelers Companies pays out 24.0% 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. Cincinnati Financial has raised its dividend for 65 consecutive years and Travelers Companies has raised its dividend for 21 consecutive years. Cincinnati Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Cincinnati Financial has a net margin of 20.22% compared to Travelers Companies' net margin of 10.77%. Travelers Companies' return on equity of 19.06% beat Cincinnati Financial's return on equity.
Summary
Travelers Companies beats Cincinnati Financial on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CINF) was last updated on 6/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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