CNA vs. RLI, AXS, SIGI, 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), AXIS Capital (AXS), Selective Insurance Group (SIGI), 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.
RLI (NYSE:RLI) and CNA Financial (NYSE:CNA) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, valuation and analyst recommendations.
RLI currently has a consensus price target of $163.25, indicating a potential upside of 9.73%. CNA Financial has a consensus price target of $46.50, indicating a potential upside of 2.69%. Given CNA Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe RLI is more favorable than CNA Financial.
In the previous week, RLI had 17 more articles in the media than CNA Financial. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for RLI and 2 mentions for CNA Financial. CNA Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat RLI's score of 0.10 indicating that RLI is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CNA Financial received 35 more outperform votes than RLI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.82% of users gave CNA Financial an outperform vote while only 55.53% of users gave RLI an outperform vote.
RLI has a net margin of 20.96% compared to RLI's net margin of 9.17%. CNA Financial's return on equity of 17.24% beat RLI's return on equity.
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 14.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CNA Financial pays out 38.4% 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 increased its dividend for 50 consecutive years and CNA Financial has increased its dividend for 8 consecutive years.
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.
RLI has a beta of 0.37, meaning that its share price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CNA Financial has a beta of 0.63, meaning that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
77.9% of RLI shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.5% of CNA Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.1% 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 large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
RLI beats CNA Financial on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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