Progressive Corporation (PGR): Today's Featured Insurance Laggard
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) pushed the Insurance industry lower today making it today's featured Insurance laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.4%. By the end of trading, Progressive Corporation fell 34 cents (-1.6%) to $21.25 on average volume. Throughout the day, 5.7 million shares of Progressive Corporation exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of six million shares. The stock ranged in price between $21.20-$21.55 after having opened the day at $21.54 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $21.59. Other companies within the Insurance industry that declined today were:
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), down 3.8%,
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), down 3.1%, and
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), down 2.6%.
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The Progressive Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides personal and commercial automobile insurance, and other specialty property-casualty insurance products and related services primarily in the United States. Progressive Corporation has a market cap of $12.93 billion and is part of the financial sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 14.4, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 10.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are six analysts that rate Progressive Corporation a buy, three analysts rate it a sell, and 11 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Progressive Corporation as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, increase in net income, revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and attractive valuation levels. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat disappointing return on equity.
- You can view the full Progressive Ratings Report.
On the positive front,
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), up 9.8%,
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), up 6.3%, and
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), up 5.9%, were all gainers within the insurance industry with
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) being today's featured insurance industry leader.
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