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Is Allstate Making Money?

January 5, 2018January 6, 2018 daniel Allstate (NYSE: ALL), Allstate Dividend, Allstate has a Lot of Value, Answer Financial., biggest source of value at Allstate, Is Allstate a Healthy Company?, Is Allstate Making Money?, New Business Needed at Allstate, The Future of Allstate

Allstate faces an uncertain future because of a changing media and insurance landscape. A major challenge for the company in the years ahead will be maintaining brand recognition in a changing media environment.

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PayPal’s Extraordinary Growth Continues

May 9, 2017 daniel Allstate (NYSE: ALL), Android Pay, Is PayPal a Good Investment?, Is PayPal Making Money?, number of Venmo users, P2P and Venmo, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), PayPal sees a Bright Future for P2P, PayPal’s Extraordinary Growth Continues, PayPal’s social media peer to peer payment (P2P) solution, taking Venmo payments, The Mystery of Venmo, The Opportunity from Venmo, TIO Networks, Venmo, Venmo and Apple Pay are actually losing money, Venmo ideal for paying for things like meals or bar tabs

PayPal sees a bright future for P2P and is betting big on the technology. The company acquired the Canadian cloud-based payment processor TIO Networks for $233 million in February, a press release indicates.

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Is Allstate in Trouble?

March 1, 2017 daniel $3.993 billion in cash from operations, $4.724 billion in cash and short-term investments, 5% increase in Allstate rates, Allstate (NYSE: ALL), Allstate a decent value investment that is paying off for shareholders, Allstate Dividend, Allstate has a Lot of Cash, Allstate is paying off for Investors, Allstate is still making money despite the decrease in customer retention, Allstate’s revenues grew by $880 million in 2016, Is Allstate in Trouble?, Is Allstate Making Money?, What can we learn from Allstate’s Earnings Report

Value investors will be happy to know that Allstate is still making money despite the decrease in customer retention. Revenues and income are growing at the company.

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Are Increased Traffic Fatalities Hurting Auto Insurers?

August 30, 2016 daniel 25% rate increase, A Deeply Flawed Business Model, Allstate (NYSE: ALL), Allstate saw its revenue grow, Auto insurers are generating more revenue but making less money., charge senior citizens higher rates, Cincinnati Financial (NASDAQ: CINF), How Long Can the Dividends Last?, Increased Traffic Fatalities, Mercury General (NYSE: MCY), National Safety Council, net income drop of $267 million, Progressive (NYSE: PGR), some auto insurers are beginning to suffer losses, The Auto Insurance Industry Feels the Pain, Travelers Companies (NYSE: TRV)

All this seems to point to a deeply-flawed business model. Auto insurers are generating more revenue but making less mo

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Is Mercury General the best Auto Insurance Stock?

August 18, 2016 daniel Allstate (NYSE: ALL), Berkshire Hathaway(NYSE: BRK.H), best dividend investment in auto insurance, Buy This Company Just for the Dividend, Cincinnati Financial (NASDAQ: CINF), highly concentrated market that contains the nation’s highest population states, Is Mercury’s Business Model Better than GEICO’s?, Mercury General (NYSE: MCY), Mercury General’s Advantage, Mercury’s markets, Mercury’s revenues grew by $308 million, Progressive (NYSE: PGR), So what is Mercury General Anyway?

Mercury General is one of those rare companies that you should buy just for the dividend yield. It has delivered a dividend yield of over 4.5% for the last five years according to ycharts.

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Allstate is Auto Insurance Still a Value Investment?

June 13, 2016 daniel Allstate (NYSE: ALL), Allstate is planning premium increases of 25% to 58%, Auto Insurance is not as Profitable as it once was, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B), Churn is eating up Allstate’s Revenue, Churn Threatens Insurers Future, Declining Customer Base, GEICO, Is Auto Insurance Still a Value Investment?, Major Drops in Allstate and Progressive Share Prices Coming Soon, premium churn, Progressive (NYSE: NYSE: PGR), Progressive’s income fell over the past year., rate increases, safe value investment

It might not be long before we see major revenue and share-price drops throughout the auto insurance sector. Expect Allstate and Progressive’s share prices to take a major nosedive in the near future if these trends continue.

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Is Allstate Still a Value Investment?

March 24, 2016 daniel Allstate (NYSE: ALL), Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), classic value criteria, dividend stock, Does Allstate Still Have Float?, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Facebook Has Far More Float Than Allstate, Is Allstate Still a Value Investment?, Is Auto Insurance Still a Value Investment?, of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B), rival Warren Buffett’s in the power to churn out cash., Should you add Allstate to your portfolio?, time to rethink some of our value investing theories

Nothing to disparage Allstate here—it is still a good company—but the cash figures that Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) reported indicate it might be time to rethink some of our value investing theories. Tech companies, including Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), now seem to be outperforming insurers like Allstate when it comes to some of the classic value criteria.