Both in Insurance

Loews vs Principal Financial Group

Over the past year L returned +11.0% and PFG returned +43.0%; their daily moves had a correlation of 0.42.

L +11.0% PFG +43.0%Growth of $1, one year, split-adjusted
MetricLPFG
Price$111.67$117.31
Market cap$22.83B$24.91B
Today+1.55%+4.13%
1 month+4.9%+6.9%
6 months+6.1%+15.5%
Year to date+6.0%+33.0%
1 year+12.3%+41.3%
Revenue growth (YoY)+3.9%+6.4%
Gross margin44.0%49.0%
Net margin9.4%10.3%
P/E (TTM)13.5×16.0×
Price / sales1.2×1.6×
Net cash-$8.43B$203.31B
Dividend yield0.22%2.86%
Volatility (60d)13.1%23.0%
Short % of float2.4%3.7%
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Shading marks the stronger figure where one clearly exists (lower is better for valuation and volatility).