CINF vs. L, RE, TRV, ALL, ACGL, MKL, WRB, ERIE, FNF, and CNA
Should you be buying Cincinnati Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cincinnati Financial include Loews (L), Everest Re Group (RE), Travelers Companies (TRV), Allstate (ALL), Arch Capital Group (ACGL), Markel Group (MKL), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Erie Indemnity (ERIE), Fidelity National Financial (FNF), and CNA Financial (CNA).
Loews (NYSE:L) and Cincinnati Financial (NASDAQ:CINF) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, risk, media sentiment, earnings and valuation.
Cincinnati Financial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Loews. Cincinnati Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Loews, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Loews had 5 more articles in the media than Cincinnati Financial. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Loews and 12 mentions for Cincinnati Financial. Loews' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Cincinnati Financial's score of 0.55 indicating that Cincinnati Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Loews presently has a consensus price target of $170.00, indicating a potential upside of 121.35%. Cincinnati Financial has a consensus price target of $126.00, indicating a potential upside of 7.16%. Given Cincinnati Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Loews is more favorable than Cincinnati Financial.
Loews has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cincinnati Financial has a beta of 0.63, meaning that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Loews received 15 more outperform votes than Cincinnati Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.67% of users gave Loews an outperform vote while only 50.60% of users gave Cincinnati Financial an outperform vote.
Cincinnati Financial has a net margin of 22.16% compared to Cincinnati Financial's net margin of 9.27%. Cincinnati Financial's return on equity of 9.45% beat Loews' return on equity.
58.3% of Loews shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.2% of Cincinnati Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.7% of Loews shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Cincinnati Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Loews pays an annual dividend of $0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Cincinnati Financial pays an annual dividend of $3.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Loews pays out 3.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cincinnati Financial pays out 21.6% 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. Cincinnati Financial has raised its dividend for 64 consecutive years. Cincinnati Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Loews beats Cincinnati Financial on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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