TRV vs. PGR, ALL, ACGL, ERIE, WRB, CINF, MKL, FNF, CNA, and ORI
Should you be buying Travelers Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Travelers Companies include Progressive (PGR), Allstate (ALL), Arch Capital Group (ACGL), Erie Indemnity (ERIE), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), Markel Group (MKL), Fidelity National Financial (FNF), CNA Financial (CNA), and Old Republic International (ORI). These companies are all part of the "property & casualty insurance" industry.
Travelers Companies (NYSE:TRV) and Progressive (NYSE:PGR) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, profitability, dividends, earnings, community ranking and media sentiment.
Travelers Companies currently has a consensus price target of $227.05, indicating a potential downside of 4.53%. Progressive has a consensus price target of $252.29, indicating a potential downside of 1.24%. Given Progressive's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Progressive is more favorable than Travelers Companies.
Travelers Companies has a beta of 0.62, suggesting that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Progressive has a beta of 0.35, suggesting that its share price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Progressive has a net margin of 10.17% compared to Travelers Companies' net margin of 8.37%. Progressive's return on equity of 33.01% beat Travelers Companies' return on equity.
Progressive received 6 more outperform votes than Travelers Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.98% of users gave Progressive an outperform vote while only 53.41% of users gave Travelers Companies an outperform vote.
Progressive has higher revenue and earnings than Travelers Companies. Travelers Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Progressive, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Progressive had 6 more articles in the media than Travelers Companies. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Progressive and 17 mentions for Travelers Companies. Progressive's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Travelers Companies' score of 0.78 indicating that Progressive is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
82.5% of Travelers Companies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.3% of Progressive shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Travelers Companies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Progressive shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Travelers Companies pays an annual dividend of $4.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Progressive pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Travelers Companies pays out 31.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Progressive pays out 4.1% 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 20 consecutive years. Travelers Companies is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Progressive beats Travelers Companies on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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