CINF vs. L, RE, TRV, ALL, ACGL, MKL, WRB, ERIE, FNF, and CNA
Should you be buying Cincinnati Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cincinnati Financial include Loews (L), Everest Re Group (RE), Travelers Companies (TRV), Allstate (ALL), Arch Capital Group (ACGL), Markel Group (MKL), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Erie Indemnity (ERIE), Fidelity National Financial (FNF), and CNA Financial (CNA).
Cincinnati Financial (NASDAQ:CINF) and Loews (NYSE:L) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation and risk.
65.2% of Cincinnati Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.3% of Loews shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.8% of Cincinnati Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 18.7% of Loews shares are owned 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.
Cincinnati Financial presently has a consensus price target of $133.57, indicating a potential upside of 7.75%. Loews has a consensus price target of $170.00, indicating a potential upside of 112.21%. Given Loews' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Loews is more favorable than Cincinnati Financial.
Cincinnati Financial pays an annual dividend of $3.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Loews pays an annual dividend of $0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Cincinnati Financial pays out 21.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Loews pays out 3.7% 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.
Cincinnati Financial has a net margin of 22.16% compared to Loews' net margin of 9.27%. Loews' return on equity of 9.45% beat Cincinnati Financial's return on equity.
Cincinnati Financial has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Loews has a beta of 0.83, suggesting that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Loews had 1 more articles in the media than Cincinnati Financial. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Loews and 23 mentions for Cincinnati Financial. Cincinnati Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Loews' score of 0.50 indicating that Cincinnati Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Cincinnati Financial has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Loews. Cincinnati Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Loews, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Loews received 12 more outperform votes than Cincinnati Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.67% of users gave Loews an outperform vote while only 50.89% of users gave Cincinnati Financial an outperform vote.
Summary
Loews beats Cincinnati Financial on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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