American Financial Group (NYSE:AFG) Vs. AIG, TRV, ALL, HIG, CINF, MKL, ACGL, L, WRB, and CNA
Should you be buying American Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Financial Group include American International Group (AIG), Travelers Companies (TRV), Allstate (ALL), The Hartford Financial Services Group (HIG), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), Markel (MKL), Arch Capital Group (ACGL), Loews (L), W. R. Berkley (WRB), and CNA Financial (CNA). These companies are all part of the "multi-line insurance" industry.These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
American Financial Group vs.
Travelers Companies (NYSE:TRV) and American Financial Group (NYSE:AFG) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, community ranking and dividends.
Travelers Companies presently has a consensus price target of $162.38, indicating a potential upside of 8.87%. American Financial Group has a consensus price target of $126.67, indicating a potential downside of 5.24%. Given Travelers Companies' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Travelers Companies is more favorable than American Financial Group.
83.2% of Travelers Companies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.9% of American Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Travelers Companies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.0% of American Financial Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Travelers Companies received 227 more outperform votes than American Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.01% of users gave American Financial Group an outperform vote while only 58.85% of users gave Travelers Companies an outperform vote.
Travelers Companies has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Financial Group has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Travelers Companies pays an annual dividend of $3.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. American Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $2.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Travelers Companies pays out 24.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. American Financial Group pays out 8.3% 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 19 consecutive years and American Financial Group has raised its dividend for 16 consecutive years. Travelers Companies is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Travelers Companies has higher revenue and earnings than American Financial Group. American Financial Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Travelers Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
American Financial Group has a net margin of 31.44% compared to Travelers Companies' net margin of 10.64%. American Financial Group's return on equity of 14.99% beat Travelers Companies' return on equity.
In the previous week, Travelers Companies had 2 more articles in the media than American Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Travelers Companies and 2 mentions for American Financial Group. American Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Travelers Companies' score of -0.25 indicating that American Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Travelers Companies beats American Financial Group on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding AFG and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment >-1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
American Financial Group (NYSE:AFG) vs. Its Competitors
American Financial Group Competitors List
