ACGL vs. ALL, TRV, MKL, WRB, CINF, CNA, PGR, HIG, AIG, and EG
Should you be buying Arch Capital Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arch Capital Group include Allstate (ALL), Travelers Companies (TRV), Markel Group (MKL), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), CNA Financial (CNA), Progressive (PGR), The Hartford Financial Services Group (HIG), American International Group (AIG), and Everest Group (EG). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Arch Capital Group (NASDAQ:ACGL) and Allstate (NYSE:ALL) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Arch Capital Group presently has a consensus price target of $100.67, suggesting a potential upside of 2.82%. Allstate has a consensus price target of $174.59, suggesting a potential upside of 2.77%. Given Arch Capital Group's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Arch Capital Group is more favorable than Allstate.
89.1% of Arch Capital Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.5% of Allstate shares are held by institutional investors. 4.0% of Arch Capital Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Allstate shares are held by company 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.
In the previous week, Arch Capital Group had 2 more articles in the media than Allstate. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Arch Capital Group and 17 mentions for Allstate. Arch Capital Group's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Allstate's score of 0.97 indicating that Arch Capital Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Arch Capital Group has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Allstate has a beta of 0.51, suggesting that its stock price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Arch Capital Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Allstate. Arch Capital Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Allstate, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Allstate received 521 more outperform votes than Arch Capital Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.04% of users gave Allstate an outperform vote while only 58.20% of users gave Arch Capital Group an outperform vote.
Arch Capital Group has a net margin of 33.65% compared to Allstate's net margin of 2.31%. Arch Capital Group's return on equity of 21.85% beat Allstate's return on equity.
Summary
Arch Capital Group beats Allstate on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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