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CNA Financial Corporation

CNA
49
Insurance - Property & Casualty · Financial Services
Price
$52.27
+0.85 (+1.65%)
Market Cap
$14.14B
Winston Score
49
Winston is serious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

CNA Financial Corporation sells business insurance to companies across many industries. Its main products include coverage for property damage, liability lawsuits, workers' compensation, and professional errors. The company focuses almost entirely on commercial customers — businesses rather than individual consumers — and is one of the larger commercial insurers in the United States.

CNA makes money by collecting premiums from policyholders and investing that money until claims need to be paid. It operates primarily in the U.S., with some international business, and reported roughly $13 billion in annual premiums. Loews Corporation owns about 90% of CNA, giving it a stable, long-term parent but limiting the stock's independence. The company's main competitive strength is its deep focus on commercial specialty lines, where relationships and underwriting expertise matter more than price alone. The key risk is that rising catastrophe losses from severe weather events could pressure profitability, since climate-related claims have grown across the entire property and casualty industry.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+3.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow revenue growth

EPS Growth

-22.8% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

R&D Spend

$0/ year

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (7%)

Research and development spending

Insider Activity

0.6%ownership

Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$522M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Growth context

CNA Financial Corporation is growing revenue at 3% year-over-year. The Winston Score measures business quality today — these growth metrics show what could matter tomorrow.

The Winston Score above measures business quality today. Growth stocks often score lower because they invest in the future rather than maximising current profits. These metrics show what matters most for evaluating that future.

Share count broadly stable

0.2% over 4y

The share count has stayed roughly flat over this period — little dilution or buyback activity.

Diluted shares outstanding: 272.8M (2021) → 272.3M (2025)

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Quality

Gross Margin
40.8%
Healthy — 40.8% gross margin
Operating Margin
8.2%
Modest — 8.2% operating margin
ROCE
2.2%
Weak — 2.2% return on capital

ROIC between 0% and 5%. They earn a few cents back per dollar invested in the business.

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Growth

Sales YoY
+4.5%
Slow sales growth (4.5% YoY)
EPS YoY
+35.9%
Earnings growing fast (35.9% YoY)

Earnings growing 25%+ a year. The compounder zone.

EPS Consistency
4/8 quarters
Earnings inconsistent quarter-to-quarter

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
169%
Turns 169% of profit into real cash
FCF Margin
14.6%
Converts sales into free cash efficiently (14.6%)

FCF margin between 10% and 20%. Every $100 in sales becomes $10 to $20 in real cash.

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.27
Conservative — low debt load (0.27)
Interest Cover
11.55x
Comfortably covers interest (11.6x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
11.7x
Attractive valuation — P/E 11.7

P/E in the normal range. Price is roughly $15 for every $1 of yearly profit.

P/E vs Forward
-0.5
SLOWING
Earnings expected to fall — forward P/E higher than today

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Dividends

Dividend Yield
7.93%
Healthy income — 7.93% yield

Yield above 6% — often a flag the market is pricing in a cut.

Dividend Growth
+2.1%
Dividend flat

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