BRK.B vs. JPM, BAC, PGR, TRV, ALL, ACGL, WRB, CINF, CNA, and RLI
Should you be buying Berkshire Hathaway stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Berkshire Hathaway include JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Bank of America (BAC), Progressive (PGR), Travelers Companies (TRV), Allstate (ALL), Arch Capital Group (ACGL), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), CNA Financial (CNA), and RLI (RLI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.B) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.
Berkshire Hathaway has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JPMorgan Chase & Co. has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. received 1575 more outperform votes than Berkshire Hathaway when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.71% of users gave JPMorgan Chase & Co. an outperform vote while only 67.84% of users gave Berkshire Hathaway an outperform vote.
Berkshire Hathaway has a net margin of 26.40% compared to JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s net margin of 20.70%. JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s return on equity of 17.80% beat Berkshire Hathaway's return on equity.
In the previous week, JPMorgan Chase & Co. had 40 more articles in the media than Berkshire Hathaway. MarketBeat recorded 41 mentions for JPMorgan Chase & Co. and 1 mentions for Berkshire Hathaway. Berkshire Hathaway's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s score of 0.42 indicating that Berkshire Hathaway is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Berkshire Hathaway currently has a consensus price target of $414.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.72%. JPMorgan Chase & Co. has a consensus price target of $181.63, indicating a potential downside of 9.04%. Given Berkshire Hathaway's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Berkshire Hathaway is more favorable than JPMorgan Chase & Co..
Berkshire Hathaway has higher revenue and earnings than JPMorgan Chase & Co.. Berkshire Hathaway is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JPMorgan Chase & Co., indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
39.3% of Berkshire Hathaway shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.6% of JPMorgan Chase & Co. shares are held by institutional investors. 6.1% of Berkshire Hathaway shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of JPMorgan Chase & Co. shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase & Co. tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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