Stock · L · Financial Services

Loews Corp

United States · Large Cap · listed since 1987 · Revenue 12 mo. $18.6B

Price as of 11/06/2026

StockScorer score
2.7
of 10 3 of 11 points Not rated To the score
Price
$109.71
1 Y −1.7%
Market cap
$22.4B

Loews Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides commercial property and casualty insurance in the United States and internationally.

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Loews Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides commercial property and casualty insurance in the United States and internationally. The company offers specialty insurance products, such as management and professional liability and other coverage products; surety and fidelity bonds; professional liability coverages and risk management services to various professional firms, including architects, real estate agents, and accounting and law firms; standard and excess property, marine and boiler, machinery coverages, workers' compensation, general and product liability, commercial auto, umbrella, excess and surplus coverages, specialized loss-sensitive insurance programs, total risk management services relating to claim and information services; directors and officers, errors and omissions, employment practices, fiduciary, fidelity, and cyber coverages, as well as for small and mid-size firms, public and privately held firms, and not-for-profit organizations; and insurance products to serve the health care industry, including professional and general liability, as well as associated casualty coverage to aging services, allied medical facilities, dentists, physicians, nurses, and other medical practitioners. It also provides warranty and alternative risk, and run-off long-term care insurance products; ethane supply and transportation services for petrochemical customers, as well as transports and stores natural gas and natural gas liquids; operates a chain of hotels; develops, manufactures, and markets a range of extrusion blow-molded and injection molded plastic containers; and manufactures commodities and differentiated plastic resins. The company markets its insurance products and services through a network of retail and wholesale brokers, independent agents, brokers, and managing general underwriters. Loews Corporation was incorporated in 1969 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

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Summary

Loews Corp is around the middle of the Financial Services sector overall

56.2 of 100

Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.

Analysis

What the price requires

The price requires a lasting 11.0% return on equity, more than the average of the last 5 and 10 years.

Book value €16.4B, market value €20.1B (P/B 1.2). At a 9% discount rate, the premium over book value only pays off with a lasting 11.0% return on equity.

Required return on equity per year

11.0%

no perpetual growth

Market value breakdown€20.1B market value, price as of 11/06/2026

€16.4B book value
€3.7B premium over book value
  • ROE 5-yr avg 8.2%
  • ROE 10-yr avg 5.4%
  • required 11.0%

Valuation against its own history

Price to book 1.23×, above its usual range.

Middle half of 20 quarters: 0.95× to 1.11×, median 1.00×.

Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.

No sign supports the expectation, 2 speak against it.

What supports it

with respect to the priced-in expectation

No indication in the stored figures.

What speaks against it

with respect to the priced-in expectation

  • Expectation above the company's own record priced in 11.0%, achieved at most 8.2%
  • Volatile earnings 4 drops or sign changes in up to 10 years

Since the last quarter

Q1 → Q2 2026

Mostly better than the previous quarter: 1 of 1 change for the better.

  • EBIT margin12.6% → 16.6%+4.0 ppbetter

3 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., Shares outstanding, Return on equity

Derivation

How the sector comparison is derived

Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.

Price as of 11/06/2026.

Profitability27.3below the middleEarns less than the sector: Gross margin 43.93%, sector 65.53%.
MetricStockSector medianPosition in sector
Return on equity8.92%12.46%Rank 24
Return on capital (Greenblatt)21.35%59.04%Rank 36
EBIT margin12.56%23.06%Rank 20
FCF margin14.85%19.82%Rank 38
Gross margin43.93%65.53%Rank 19
Growth65.9above the middleGrows faster than the sector: Earnings growth, 3 years per year 33.13%, sector 15.20%.
MetricStockSector medianPosition in sector
Revenue growth, 1 year5.44%7.39%Rank 42
Earnings growth, 3 years per year33.13%15.20%Rank 78
Earnings growth, 5 years per yeardoes not count towards the rank–15.17%
Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings)3.19%1.25%Rank 78
Valuation68.0above the middleValued lower than the sector: EV/sales 1.28, sector 2.82.
MetricStockSector medianPosition in sector
Earnings yield7.27%6.47%Rank 62
FCF yield12.04%7.16%Rank 71
EV/saleslower is better1.282.82Rank 71
EV/EBITlower is better10.2314.24Rank 69
Momentum45.0around the middleShare price moving about like the sector.
MetricStockSector medianPosition in sector
Share price, 1 year−1.66%7.80%Rank 34
Share price, 6 months5.47%8.71%Rank 37
Share price, 3 months0.09%0.45%Rank 48
Distance from 52-week high−8.12%−10.68%Rank 61
Quality60.1above the middleQuality above the sector: Change in share count −5.18%, sector −0.60%.
MetricStockSector medianPosition in sector
Accruals (Sloan)lower is better1.45%1.23%Rank 46
Change in share countlower is better−5.18%−0.60%Rank 89
Dividend streak in years115Rank 75
Price reaction to results, market-adjusted−1.01%0.00%Rank 31
Balance sheet & risk70.8above the middleLess risk than the sector: Volatility, 1 year 15.98%, sector 25.95%.
MetricStockSector medianPosition in sector
Equity ratio21.64%9.21%Rank 73
Net debt/EBITDAlower is better0.280.12Rank 48
Debt to equitylower is better0.510.90Rank 66
Volatility, 1 yearlower is better15.98%25.95%Rank 96

Ten years in figures

Revenue from $13.1B (2016) to $18.2B (2025), 3.7% a year.

Fiscal years, amounts in USD
YearRevenue, $BNet incomeReturn on equityShares
201613.1$654.0M3.6%338M
201713.7$1.2B6.1%338M
201814.0$636.0M3.4%320M
201914.7$932.0M4.9%303M
202013.7−$931.0M−5.2%280M
202113.7$1.6B8.8%260M
202214.1$822.0M5.7%243M
202315.7$1.4B9.1%228M
202417.2$1.4B8.3%221M
202518.2$1.7B8.9%209M
2.7 / 10Not ratedStockScorer score3 of 11 points

2 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built

Loews Corp mainly meets criteria in the Valuation category. Result from 18 strategies checked.

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How Loews Corp's score is built

This is how the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set, calculates the points for Loews Corp. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.

2 of 7 rules met

3 of 11 points

The rule “Exclusion: financial and real estate stocks” applies. The stock is therefore not rated regardless of the points scored.

  1. Free cash flow yield above the sector medianmet2 of 2 points
  2. Return on capital (Greenblatt ROC) above the sector mediannot met0 of 2 points
  3. Return on equity above the sector mediannot met0 of 1 point
  4. Free cash flow margin above the sector mediannot met0 of 2 points
  5. Revenue growth above 15%not met0 of 2 points
  6. 3-year earnings growth above 12% p.a.met1 of 1 point
  7. 12-month share price more than 20 percentage points ahead of the marketnot met0 of 1 point
  8. Exclusion: financial and real estate stocksapplies

Detail data

How does Loews Corp stock perform across 18 strategies?

Excerpt from 18 strategies checked. The full evaluation is visible after a free sign-up.

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  • Growth Momentum (CAN SLIM principle)
  • StockScorer Score
  • Moat Quality
  • Altman Z-Score: Stress Test
  • Magic Formula: Value + Quality
  • Acquirer's Multiple: EV/EBIT Deep Value
  • Dividend Aristocrats & Continuity
  • Earnings Quality: Accrual Check (Sloan)
  • Balanced GARP
  • High-Growth / Rule of 40
  • Levermann Strategy (13 Criteria)
  • PEG Strategy (inspired by Peter Lynch)

Loews Corp key metrics: P/E, P/B and equity ratio

Selected fundamental metrics for Loews Corp.

MetricStockSector
P/E ratio13.815.2
P/B ratio1.21.8
Return on equity (ROE)8.9%12.5%
Equity ratio21.6%9.2%
Debt-to-equity (D/E)0.510.90
Dividend yield0.2%3.3%

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Frequently asked questions about Loews Corp stock

How does Loews Corp stock (L) score in the StockScorer model?
Loews Corp stock reaches a StockScorer score of 2.7 out of 10, but is not rated (exclusion rule: Exclusion: financial and real estate stocks).
What is Loews Corp's P/E ratio?
Loews Corp's P/E ratio is 13.8. The Financial Services sector median is 15.2.
What sector is Loews Corp in?
Loews Corp is assigned to the Financial Services sector. Its rank within the sector is 56.2 out of 100: 100 means the stock leads its peer group of large and mid-cap sector stocks in every measured area.

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