CNA vs. RLI, SIGI, AXS, CINF, THG, WTM, WRB, MCY, ACGL, and ALL
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), Mercury General (MCY), Arch Capital Group (ACGL), and Allstate (ALL). These companies are all part of the "property & casualty insurance" industry.
CNA Financial (NYSE:CNA) and RLI (NYSE:RLI) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment and risk.
CNA Financial has a beta of 0.64, meaning that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RLI has a beta of 0.37, meaning that its share price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500.
CNA Financial received 34 more outperform votes than RLI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.89% of users gave CNA Financial an outperform vote while only 55.53% of users gave RLI an outperform vote.
In the previous week, RLI had 24 more articles in the media than CNA Financial. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for RLI and 8 mentions for CNA Financial. RLI's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat CNA Financial's score of 0.32 indicating that RLI is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
RLI has a net margin of 20.96% compared to CNA Financial's net margin of 9.06%. RLI's return on equity of 17.24% beat CNA Financial's return on equity.
98.5% of CNA Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.9% of RLI shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of CNA Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.9% of RLI shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
CNA Financial currently has a consensus price target of $46.50, suggesting a potential upside of 7.54%. RLI has a consensus price target of $163.25, suggesting a potential upside of 13.25%. Given RLI's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe RLI is more favorable than CNA Financial.
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.
CNA Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. RLI pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. CNA Financial pays out 39.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. RLI pays out 14.9% 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.
Summary
RLI beats CNA Financial on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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