PRUDENTIAL PLC vs Travelers Companies, Inc., two Insurance stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Prudential plc sells life and savings across Asia, earning on investment spread over decades. Travelers writes property and casualty risk, graded on the combined ratio and reserve discipline. Travelers earns the higher return on equity, 23.77% against Prudential plc's 19.28%, and trades far cheaper, 9.77 times earnings and 2.24 times book against the Asian insurer's 17.26 and 3.21. Prudential plc's 35.85% net margin towers over Travelers' 15.54%, a gap that owes much to how life premium counts against casualty. The two are close in size, $68.7B for Prudential plc and $71.5B for Travelers. Travelers pays a 0.86% dividend; Prudential plc's yield is absent from these figures.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | PUK | TRV |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $28.13 | $338.86 |
| Market cap | $72.6B | $74.0B |
| Sector | Financial Services | Financial Services |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| P/E | 18.2 | 10.1 |
| P/B | 3.40 | 2.31 |
| P/S | 6.32 | 1.51 |
| EV/EBITDA | 16.7 | 380.3 |
| Revenue growth | -10.1% | +4.2% |
| Operating margin | 28.8% | — |
| Net margin | 35.9% | 15.5% |
| Return on equity | 19.3% | 23.8% |
| Return on assets | 1.9% | 5.3% |
| Dividend yield | — | 0.8% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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