L vs. AIG, HIG, AFG, AIZ, KMPR, GNW, HMN, TRV, ALL, and ACGL
Should you be buying Loews stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Loews include American International Group (AIG), The Hartford Financial Services Group (HIG), American Financial Group (AFG), Assurant (AIZ), Kemper (KMPR), Genworth Financial (GNW), Horace Mann Educators (HMN), Travelers Companies (TRV), Allstate (ALL), and Arch Capital Group (ACGL). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Loews (NYSE:L) and American International Group (NYSE:AIG) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.
Loews pays an annual dividend of $0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. American International Group pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Loews pays out 3.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. American International Group pays out 23.9% 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.
In the previous week, American International Group had 10 more articles in the media than Loews. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for American International Group and 4 mentions for Loews. Loews' average media sentiment score of 1.79 beat American International Group's score of 1.11 indicating that Loews is being referred to more favorably in the media.
American International Group received 590 more outperform votes than Loews when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.00% of users gave American International Group an outperform vote while only 60.67% of users gave Loews an outperform vote.
Loews presently has a consensus price target of $170.00, indicating a potential upside of 129.20%. American International Group has a consensus price target of $81.50, indicating a potential upside of 10.02%. Given Loews' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Loews is more favorable than American International Group.
58.3% of Loews shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.6% of American International Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.7% of Loews shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of American International Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Loews has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American International Group has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
American International Group has a net margin of 9.98% compared to Loews' net margin of 9.27%. American International Group's return on equity of 10.54% beat Loews' return on equity.
American International Group has higher revenue and earnings than Loews. Loews is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American International Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
American International Group beats Loews on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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