Understanding Allstate – Key Facts for Investors

By Ken Smith • Thursday, July 17 15:16 • Permanent Link

Allstate marked a -1.2% change today, compared to 1.0% for the S&P 500. Is it a good value at today's price of $193.3? Only an in-depth analysis can answer that question, but here are some facts that can give you an idea:

The Allstate Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides property and casualty, and other insurance products in the United States and Canada.
Allstate belongs to the Finance sector, which has an average price to earnings (P/E) ratio of 15.92 and an average price to book (P/B) of 1.78
The company's P/B ratio is 2.55
Allstate has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 13.2 based on its trailing 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $14.64 per share
Its forward P/E ratio is 10.2, based on its forward earnings per share (EPS) of $19.03
Over the last four years, Allstate has averaged free cash flows of $5.34 Billion, which on average grew 12.0%
Allstate has moved 16.9% over the last year compared to 10.6% for the S&P 500 -- a difference of 6.3%
ALL has an average analyst rating of buy and is -15.07% away from its mean target price of $227.59 per share

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