PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL INC vs Travelers Companies, Inc., two Insurance stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Prudential Financial is a life insurer, earning the spread on long-duration liabilities. Travelers writes property and casualty risk, graded on the combined ratio and reserve discipline. Travelers earns more than double the return on equity, 23.77% against Prudential Financial's 10.72%, and carries a far fatter net margin, 15.54% versus 5.52%, the two models on different scales. On earnings they price close, Travelers at 9.77 times and Prudential Financial at 11.15. Book value splits them wide, Travelers at 2.24 times against 1.17. Prudential Financial pays the larger dividend, 4.99% versus 0.86%, and carries debt at 0.61. Travelers is the bigger house at $71.5B against $37.8B.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | PRU | TRV |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $115.37 | $338.86 |
| Market cap | $40.3B | $74.0B |
| Sector | Financial Services | Financial Services |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| P/E | 11.9 | 10.1 |
| P/B | 1.25 | 2.31 |
| P/S | 0.64 | 1.51 |
| EV/EBITDA | 309.1 | 380.3 |
| Revenue growth | +6.1% | +4.2% |
| Net margin | 5.5% | 15.5% |
| Return on equity | 10.7% | 23.8% |
| Return on assets | 0.5% | 5.3% |
| Dividend yield | 4.7% | 0.8% |
| Debt / equity | 0.61 | 0.00 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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