L Stock Analysis: Loews | NYSE

Insurance - Property & Casualty | NYSE, USA | Market Cap: 22.988m USD | 12M Return: 16.8% | US5404241086 | Charts, Fundamentals & Technical Analysis

Insurance, Hotels, Pipelines, Plastics
Total Rating 43
Safety 46
Buy Signal -0.80
Insurance - Property & Casualty
Industry Rotation: -3.5
Market Cap: 23.0B
Avg Turnover: 77.7M
Risk 3d forecast
Volatility16.3%
VaR 5th Pctl2.99%
VaR vs Median11.5%
Reward TTM
Sharpe Ratio0.74
Rel. Str. IBD38.1
Rel. Str. Peer Group18.4
Character TTM
Beta0.018
Beta Downside-0.071
Hurst Exponent0.580
Drawdowns 3y
Max DD12.16%
CAGR/Max DD1.81
CAGR/Mean DD9.23
EPS (Earnings per Share) EPS (Earnings per Share) of L over the last years for every Quarter: "2021-06": 1.15, "2021-09": 0.9122, "2021-12": 1.36, "2022-03": 1.32, "2022-06": 0.9821, "2022-09": 0.947, "2022-12": 1.53, "2023-03": 1.61, "2023-06": 1.58, "2023-09": 1.12, "2023-12": 1.99, "2024-03": 2.0514, "2024-06": 1.6652, "2024-09": 1.8232, "2024-12": 0.8585, "2025-03": 1.7404, "2025-06": 1.87, "2025-09": 2.4265, "2025-12": 1.94, "2026-03": 1.6338, "2026-06": 2.16,
EPS CAGR: 9.25%
EPS Trend: 70.5%
Qual. Beats: 0
Revenue Revenue of L over the last years for every Quarter: 2021-06: 4003, 2021-09: 3371, 2021-12: 3571, 2022-03: 3402, 2022-06: 3388, 2022-09: 3461, 2022-12: 3793, 2023-03: 3783, 2023-06: 3934, 2023-09: 3897, 2023-12: 4192, 2024-03: 4177, 2024-06: 4193, 2024-09: 4399, 2024-12: 4470, 2025-03: 4438, 2025-06: 4474, 2025-09: 4603, 2025-12: 4661, 2026-03: 4555, 2026-06: 4734,
Rev. CAGR: 6.89%
Rev. Trend: 98.5%
Qual. Beats: 0

Warnings

Choppy
Below Avwap Earnings

Tailwinds

No distinct edge detected

Seasonality 11.6 years of data

Jan -0.7% 8
Feb -0.4% 15
Mar +1.0% 8
Apr +0.8% 2
May -0.4% 8
Jun +0.4% 7
Jul -0.5% 8
Aug -0.6% 25
Sep -1.0% 14
Oct -0.1% 2
Nov +3.6% 40
Dec -0.8% 16

How good or bad each month usually is (without trend). The score below shows how much you can trust it: 0 = pure chance, >40 gets interesting and >55 is strong.

Description: L Loews

Loews Corporation is a diversified holding company (incorporated 1969, headquartered in New York) whose subsidiaries operate across several distinct industries. Its core business is commercial property and casualty insurance, offered in the U.S. and internationally, with a heavy emphasis on specialty lines such as professional and management liability, surety and fidelity bonds, D&O, errors and omissions, cyber, and coverage tailored to healthcare practitioners and professional firms. Insurance products are distributed through retail and wholesale brokers, independent agents, and managing general underwriters.

Beyond insurance, Loews runs non-financial businesses including ethane supply and transportation services for petrochemical customers, natural gas and natural gas liquids storage and transport, a hotel chain, plastic container manufacturing (extrusion blow-molded and injection molded), and the production of commodity and differentiated plastic resins. The company also retains run-off long-term care insurance liabilities through its subsidiaries.

As a large-cap holding company (GICS classified under Financials, Multi-line Insurance), Loews follows a conglomerate model in which a parent entity owns controlling stakes in operating subsidiaries spanning insurance, energy logistics, hospitality, and industrials-a structure that gives it multiple uncorrelated revenue streams but also exposes consolidated results to cyclicality in energy and manufacturing alongside underwriting performance.

Headlines to Watch Out For
  • CNA Financial combined ratio improves with disciplined underwriting and pricing
  • Boardwalk Pipelines ethane volumes rise on petrochemical demand
  • Loews Hotels RevPAR recovery accelerates with rising occupancy
Piotroski VR-10 (Strict) 5.5
Net Income: 1.92b TTM > 0 and > 6% of Revenue
FCF/TA: 0.02 > 0.02 and ΔFCF/TA -1.31 > 1.0
NWC/Revenue: -88.13% < 20% (prev -123.9%; Δ 35.80% < -1%)
CFO/TA 0.03 > 3% & CFO 2.76b > Net Income 1.92b
Net Debt (1.50b) to EBITDA (3.69b): 0.41 < 3
Current Ratio: 0.59 > 1.5 & < 3
Outstanding Shares: last quarter (205.5m) vs 12m ago -1.84% < -2%
Gross Margin: 46.96% > 18% (prev 43.65%; Δ 3.32% > 0.5%)
Asset Turnover: 21.59% > 50% (prev 21.00%; Δ 0.59% > 0%)
Interest Coverage Ratio: 6.98 > 6 (EBIT TTM 3.08b / Interest Expense TTM 441.0m)
Altman Z'' -0.01
A: -0.19 (Total Current Assets 23.2b - Total Current Liabilities 39.5b) / Total Assets 87.2b
B: 0.21 (Retained Earnings 18.1b / Total Assets 87.2b)
C: 0.04 (EBIT TTM 3.08b / Avg Total Assets 85.9b)
D: 0.28 (Book Value of Equity 19.1b / Total Liabilities 67.2b)
Altman-Z'' = -0.01 = B
Beneish M -3.11
DSRI: 0.99 (Receivables 11.7b/11.4b, Revenue 18.6b/17.8b)
GMI: 0.93 (GM 43.65% / 46.96%)
AQI: 0.93 (AQ_t 0.61 / AQ_t-1 0.66)
SGI: 1.04 (Revenue 18.6b / 17.8b)
TATA: -0.01 (NI 1.92b - CFO 2.76b) / TA 87.2b)
Beneish M = -3.11 (Cap -4..+1) = AA
What is the price of L shares?

As of August 25, 2026, the stock is trading at USD 111.45 with a total of 379,263 shares traded. Over the past week, the price has changed by -0.77%, over one month by -5.42%, over three months by +2.28% and over the past year by +16.79%.

Current recommended Stop Loss: 107.80 (which is 3.3% or 1.8 ATR below the current price).

Is L a buy, sell or hold?

Loews has no consensus analysts rating.

What are the forecasts/targets for the L price?
Analysts Target Price 60 -46.2%
Loews (L) - Fundamental Data Overview as of 20 August 2026
Market Cap USD = 23.0b (23.0b USD * 1.0 USD.USD)
P/E Trailing = 13.7975
P/E Forward = 12.1951
P/S = 1.2297
P/B = 1.2019
P/EG = 1.3215
Revenue TTM = 18.6b USD
EBIT TTM = 3.08b USD
EBITDA TTM = 3.69b USD
Long Term Debt = 8.91b USD (from longTermDebt, last quarter)
Short Term Debt = 22.0m USD (from shortTermDebt, last quarter)
Debt = 8.94b USD (from shortLongTermDebtTotal, last quarter)
Net Debt = 1.50b USD (calculated: Debt 8.94b - CCE 7.44b)
Enterprise Value = 24.5b USD (23.0b + Debt 8.94b - CCE 7.44b)
Interest Coverage Ratio = 6.98 (Ebit TTM 3.08b / Interest Expense TTM 441.0m)
EV/FCF = 12.12x (Enterprise Value 24.5b / FCF TTM 2.02b)
FCF Yield = 8.25% (FCF TTM 2.02b / Enterprise Value 24.5b)
FCF Margin = 10.89% (FCF TTM 2.02b / Revenue TTM 18.6b)
Net Margin = 10.36% (Net Income TTM 1.92b / Revenue TTM 18.6b)
Gross Margin = 46.96% ((Revenue TTM 18.6b - Cost of Revenue TTM 9.84b) / Revenue TTM)
Gross Margin QoQ = 46.66% (prev 52.25%)
Tobins Q-Ratio = 0.28 (Enterprise Value 24.5b / Total Assets 87.2b)
Interest Expense / Debt = 4.94% (Interest Expense 441.0m / Debt 8.94b)
Taxrate = 12.93% (298.0m / 2.31b)
NOPAT = 2.68b (EBIT 3.08b * (1 - 12.93%))
Current Ratio = 0.59 (Total Current Assets 23.2b / Total Current Liabilities 39.5b)
Debt / Equity = 0.47 (Debt 8.94b / totalStockholderEquity, last quarter 19.1b)
Debt / EBITDA = 0.41 (Net Debt 1.50b / EBITDA 3.69b)
Debt / FCF = 0.74 (Net Debt 1.50b / FCF TTM 2.02b)
Total Stockholder Equity = 18.7b (last 4 quarters mean from totalStockholderEquity)
RoA = 2.24% (Net Income 1.92b / Total Assets 87.2b)
RoE = 10.28% (Net Income TTM 1.92b / Total Stockholder Equity 18.7b)
RoCE = 11.14% (EBIT 3.08b / Capital Employed (Equity 18.7b + L.T.Debt 8.91b))
RoIC = 5.72% (NOPAT 2.68b / Invested Capital 46.8b)
WACC = 5.56% (E(23.0b)/V(31.9b) * Re(6.05%) + D(8.94b)/V(31.9b) * Rd(4.94%) * (1-Tc(0.13)))
Discount Rate = 6.05% (= CAPM, Blume Beta Adj.)
Shares (quarterly) Correlation: -97.32 | Cagr: -3.55%
[DCF] Terminal Value 73.10% ; FCFF base≈2.44b ; Y1≈2.14b ; Y5≈1.73b
[DCF] Fair Price = 128.4 (EV 27.8b - Net Debt 1.50b = Equity 26.3b / Shares 204.4m; r=8.35% [WACC [floored]]; 5y FCF grow -15.0% → 2.50% )
EPS Correlation: 70.52 | EPS CAGR: 9.25% | SUE: N/A | # QB: 0
Revenue Correlation: 98.49 | Revenue CAGR: 6.89% | SUE: N/A | # QB: 0