TRV vs. ALL, ACGL, WRB, CINF, PGR, AIG, HIG, EG, L, and CB
Should you be buying Travelers Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Travelers Companies include Allstate (ALL), Arch Capital Group (ACGL), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), Progressive (PGR), American International Group (AIG), The Hartford Financial Services Group (HIG), Everest Group (EG), Loews (L), and Chubb (CB). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Travelers Companies (NYSE:TRV) and Allstate (NYSE:ALL) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, community ranking, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Travelers Companies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Allstate. Travelers Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Allstate, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Allstate had 9 more articles in the media than Travelers Companies. MarketBeat recorded 36 mentions for Allstate and 27 mentions for Travelers Companies. Allstate's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Travelers Companies' score of 0.74 indicating that Allstate is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Travelers Companies pays an annual dividend of $4.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Allstate pays an annual dividend of $3.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Travelers Companies pays out 29.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Allstate pays out 81.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Allstate received 393 more outperform votes than Travelers Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.09% of users gave Allstate an outperform vote while only 54.25% of users gave Travelers Companies an outperform vote.
Travelers Companies presently has a consensus target price of $223.47, suggesting a potential upside of 2.82%. Allstate has a consensus target price of $174.18, suggesting a potential upside of 2.29%. Given Travelers Companies' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Travelers Companies is more favorable than Allstate.
82.5% of Travelers Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.5% of Allstate shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Travelers Companies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Allstate shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Travelers Companies has a net margin of 7.32% compared to Allstate's net margin of 2.31%. Allstate's return on equity of 14.44% beat Travelers Companies' return on equity.
Travelers Companies has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its stock price is 40% 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.
Summary
Allstate beats Travelers Companies on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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