ALL vs. ACGL, TRV, CINF, WRB, CNA, PGR, HIG, AIG, RE, and L
Should you be buying Allstate stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Allstate include Arch Capital Group (ACGL), Travelers Companies (TRV), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), W. R. Berkley (WRB), CNA Financial (CNA), Progressive (PGR), The Hartford Financial Services Group (HIG), American International Group (AIG), Everest Re Group (RE), and Loews (L). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Allstate vs.
Allstate (NYSE:ALL) and Arch Capital Group (NASDAQ:ACGL) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Allstate presently has a consensus target price of $141.31, suggesting a potential upside of 26.21%. Arch Capital Group has a consensus target price of $74.20, suggesting a potential upside of 3.86%. Given Allstate's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Allstate is more favorable than Arch Capital Group.
In the previous week, Allstate had 25 more articles in the media than Arch Capital Group. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Allstate and 4 mentions for Arch Capital Group. Arch Capital Group's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Allstate's score of 0.01 indicating that Arch Capital Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Arch Capital Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Allstate. Allstate is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Arch Capital Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Allstate has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Arch Capital Group has a beta of 0.73, suggesting that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Arch Capital Group has a net margin of 18.43% compared to Allstate's net margin of -4.33%. Arch Capital Group's return on equity of 17.51% beat Allstate's return on equity.
77.5% of Allstate shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.8% of Arch Capital Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Allstate shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Arch Capital Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Allstate received 517 more outperform votes than Arch Capital Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.52% of users gave Allstate an outperform vote while only 58.67% of users gave Arch Capital Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Arch Capital Group beats Allstate on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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