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United States · USD·Financials›Multi-Line Insurance

Major US auto and property insurer known for direct-to-consumer distribution, usage-based (Snapshot) pricing and fast digital claims handling.

Momentum strong 76
Mkt cap
$132B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
100%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$615M
20-day average traded
P/B
3.82×
price to book
ROE
33.2%
delivered
Implied ROE
15.8%
what the price asks
Official | Implied
A / A
agencies · bond market
Next earnings
82 days
27 Jan 2027
Close · USD$227.77
1D-2.3%
1W-1.5%
1M+4.1%
3M+6.5%
6M+17.5%
YTD+6.5%
1Y+16.1%
ATR %2.4%
Beta-0.36
52w lowhigh5.5% off high

What Progressive does

Major US auto and property insurer known for direct-to-consumer distribution, usage-based (Snapshot) pricing and fast digital claims handling.

Earns underwriting profit, premiums minus claims and costs, on auto insurance sold directly online and by phone and through independent agents, plus investment income on premiums held. It prices each customer's risk individually and tries to grow as fast as it can while still covering claims.

Products and services

  • Personal auto insurance
  • Commercial auto insurance
  • Property insurance (home, renters)

Customers

  • Individual auto/homeowners insurance shoppers
  • Commercial auto/fleet operators

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Financials
  • Insurance
  • Personal and commercial auto/property…

What could go right

  • Direct/digital channel market-share gains
  • Bundled auto+home cross-sell growth

What could go wrong

  • Auto-claims severity/inflation risk
  • Catastrophe (property) loss exposure growth

Moat: wide (data, cost advantage, scale). Vast telematics/claims data and a low-cost direct-distribution model let it price and grow faster than most peers.

Headquarters: Mayfield Village, Ohio, USA · Founded: 1937 · Employees: 70,053

Named competitors

Progressive at a glance

Size Progressive (PGR) is a United States Financials company (Multi-Line Insurance) with a market value of $132B, the 91st largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $227.77 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 17.5%, against +11.7% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 8th highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 7.7% over the last twelve months (peer median +11.1%); the operating margin is 16.4% (peer median 23.1%).

Valuation It trades at 3.82× book value against a peer median of 2.05× (most expensive of 21).

Price implies The share price implies a return on equity of about 15.8%; Progressive delivers 33.2%, so the price asks less than the business earns today.

Credit Progressive has 16 bonds outstanding ($8.45B), rated A by the agencies and trading like A at a weighted spread of 72 bp.

Short interest Short interest is 1.2% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 27 Jan 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

10011012011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026PGR 116Peer median 110
Six months, rebased to 100: Progressive against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Progressive financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$91.7B$87.6B$75.3B$62.1B$49.6B
Revenue growth—+16%+21%+25%—
Net income$11.6B$11.3B$8.48B$3.90B$722M
Free cash flow$15.2B$17.2B$14.8B$10.4B$6.56B
Capital expenditure$438M$348M$285M$252M$292M
Total debt$8.39B$7.10B$7.09B$7.07B$6.53B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Progressive competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-20%0%+20%-5%0%+5%+10%26286016286013182318ZURN1299CSALV2881METAFLGWOSREN13398725601601POWAIGSLFPGR6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Progressive is the large dot.

Fundamentals: return on equity against price-to-book

10%20%30%40%10×20×30×26286016286013182318ZURN1299CSALVALL2881METAFLGWOSREN13398725601601POWAIGSLFPGRReturn on equity →Price / book →
A bank or insurer earning more on its equity usually trades at a higher multiple of book; points far above the trend are priced for more. Progressive is the large dot.

Capital: ROE delivered against the ROE the price implies

10%20%30%40%20%40%26286016282318ZURN1299CSALVALL2881METAFLSREN1339601601AIGPGRROE delivered →ROE the price implies →
Above the diagonal = the price asks for a higher return on equity than the business earns today. Progressive is the large dot.

Progressive competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (PGR vs ALL vs TRV vs MCY)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthROEPrice / bookImplied ROE
Progressive PGR$132B+17%+8%33%3.82×15.8%
Allstate ALL$64.4B+20%+6%46%2.04×9.9%
Travelers Companies (The) TRV$81.0B+33%+1%28%2.79×13.9%
Mercury General MCY$4.58B-17%+5%26%1.63×13.7%
Root ROOT$672M-23%+15%15%2.05×37.6%
Kemper KMPR$1.97B+10%-4%-19%0.90×9.4%
Lemonade LMND$3.06B-28%+77%-27%6.12×75.0%

How Progressive compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Progressive against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasurePGRPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+4.1%+3.3%9th highest of 21
6-month return+17.5%+11.7%8th highest of 21
Return on equity33.2%16.3%3rd highest of 21
Price / book3.82×2.05×most expensive of 21
Trailing P/E11.5×12.7×9th cheapest of 21
ROE the price implies15.8%10.6%6th most demanding of 21
ROE delivered33.2%16.6%3rd highest of 20
Bond spread72 bp79 bp4th tightest of 11

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthROEPrice / bookImplied ROEDelivered ROE
Progressive PGRUnited States$132B+17%+8%33%3.82×15.8%33.2%
China Life 2628.HKHong Kong$134B-17%+38%41%0.93×10.0%41.3%
China Life Insurance 601628.SSChina$135B-3%+16%12%1.54×13.1%11.9%
Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China 601318.SSChina$136B-8%+12%14%0.96×7.4%n/a
Ping An 2318.HKHong Kong$138B-17%-8%10%0.79×9.7%9.8%
Zurich Insurance ZURN.SWSwitzerland$114B+16%+19%26%3.67×11.2%25.5%
AIA 1299.HKHong Kong$104B-10%+13%20%2.53×18.4%19.6%
Axa CS.PAFrance$103B+13%+11%19%2.24×17.8%19.0%
Allianz ALV.DEGermany$192B+19%+21%21%2.98×16.0%21.1%
Allstate ALLUnited States$64.4B+20%+6%46%2.04×9.9%46.1%
Fubon Financial Hldg 2881.TWTaiwan$62.7B+66%+12%16%1.66×7.4%16.0%
MetLife METUnited States$62.4B+27%+9%13%2.28×16.2%13.2%
Aflac AFLUnited States$62.2B+10%+14%17%2.06×12.5%16.9%
Great-West Lifeco GWO.TOCanada$57.4B+18%+4%16%3.02×15.7%16.0%
Swiss Re SREN.SWSwitzerland$50.6B+27%-12%20%2.27×6.1%20.4%
People's Insurance Co. (Group) of China 1339.HKHong Kong$46.1B-2%+11%18%0.60×5.6%18.1%
Ms&ad Ins Gp Hldgs 8725.TJapan$44.4B+22%+21%17%1.07×6.9%16.6%
China Pacific Insurance (Group) 601601.SSChina$42.6B-14%+4%14%0.93×8.2%14.4%
Power Corporation of Canada POW.TOCanada$40.7B+16%+10%11%2.42×15.9%11.0%
American International AIGUnited States$40.7B+2%+1%8%1.04×7.5%8.2%
Sun Life Financial SLF.TOCanada$40.1B+7%-1%13%2.38×13.7%13.5%

Progressive bonds and credit

Progressive has 16 bonds outstanding with $8.45B face value. The agencies rate it A; its bonds trade like A. Weighted yield 5.64%, a spread of 72 bp over government bonds.

Every bond, yield and spread in the cockpit →

Questions

Who are Progressive's main competitors?
Named competitors: GEICO (Berkshire Hathaway) (private or unlisted), Allstate (ALL), Travelers (TRV), Mercury General (MCY), Root (ROOT), Kemper (KMPR). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes China Life (2628.HK), China Life Insurance (601628.SS), Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China (601318.SS), Ping An (2318.HK), Zurich Insurance (ZURN.SW), AIA (1299.HK).
Is Progressive expensive compared with its peers?
On price / book it trades at 3.82× against a peer median of 2.05×, most expensive of 21 in its peer set. The share price implies a return on equity of about 15.8%; Progressive delivers 33.2%, so the price asks less than the business earns today.
How has Progressive stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +17.5% against +11.7% for the median peer; over one year +16.1%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.