CNA vs. RLI, SIGI, AXS, CINF, THG, WTM, WRB, ACGL, ALL, and KNSL
Should you be buying CNA Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CNA Financial include RLI (RLI), Selective Insurance Group (SIGI), AXIS Capital (AXS), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), The Hanover Insurance Group (THG), White Mountains Insurance Group (WTM), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Arch Capital Group (ACGL), Allstate (ALL), and Kinsale Capital Group (KNSL). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
RLI (NYSE:RLI) and CNA Financial (NYSE:CNA) are both financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking and dividends.
RLI has a net margin of 20.15% compared to RLI's net margin of 9.06%. CNA Financial's return on equity of 17.02% beat RLI's return on equity.
In the previous week, RLI and RLI both had 2 articles in the media. CNA Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat RLI's score of 0.14 indicating that RLI is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CNA Financial has higher revenue and earnings than RLI. CNA Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RLI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
77.9% of RLI shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.5% of CNA Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.0% of RLI shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of CNA Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
CNA Financial received 36 more outperform votes than RLI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.05% of users gave CNA Financial an outperform vote while only 55.58% of users gave RLI an outperform vote.
RLI has a beta of 0.38, meaning that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CNA Financial has a beta of 0.64, meaning that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
RLI currently has a consensus target price of $157.67, suggesting a potential upside of 6.19%. CNA Financial has a consensus target price of $45.50, suggesting a potential upside of 1.45%. Given CNA Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe RLI is more favorable than CNA Financial.
RLI pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. CNA Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. RLI pays out 16.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CNA Financial pays out 39.7% 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. RLI has raised its dividend for 49 consecutive years and CNA Financial has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years.
Summary
RLI beats CNA Financial on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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