L Stock Analysis: Loews | NYSE

Insurance - Property & Casualty | NYSE, USA | Market Cap: 22.761m USD | 12M Return: 10.9% | US5404241086 | Charts, Fundamentals & Technical Analysis

Insurance, Energy Transport, Hospitality, Plastics
Total Rating 33
Safety 43
Buy Signal -0.15
Insurance - Property & Casualty
Industry Rotation: +12.2
Market Cap: 22.8B
Avg Turnover: 69.5M
Risk 3d forecast
Volatility16.7%
VaR 5th Pctl3.05%
VaR vs Median10.5%
Reward TTM
Sharpe Ratio0.48
Rel. Str. IBD43.9
Rel. Str. Peer Group13.2 pctl
Character TTM
Beta0.004
Beta Downside-0.069
Hurst Exponent0.586
Choppyness63.3%
Drawdowns 3y
Max DD12.49%
CAGR/Max DD1.56
CAGR/Mean DD6.75
EPS (Earnings per Share) EPS (Earnings per Share) of L over the last years for every Quarter: "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, "2026-09": 1.5,
EPS CAGR: 6.92%
EPS Trend: 59.5%
Qual. Beats: 0
Revenue Revenue of L over the last years for every Quarter: 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, 2026-09: 3899,
Rev. CAGR: 5.44%
Rev. Trend: 93.1%
Qual. Beats: 0

Warnings

Below Avwap Earnings

Tailwinds

No distinct edge detected

Seasonality 11.7 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 -0.7% 28
Sep -1.5% 19
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) 4.0
Net Income: 1.72b TTM > 0 and > 6% of Revenue
FCF/TA: 0.00 > 0.02 and ΔFCF/TA -3.39 > 1.0
NWC/Revenue: -121.8% < 20% (prev -120.9%; Δ -0.98% < -1%)
CFO/TA 0.02 > 3% & CFO 1.53b > Net Income 1.72b
Net Debt (2.72b) to EBITDA (2.63b): 1.03 < 3
Current Ratio: 0.45 > 1.5 & < 3
Outstanding Shares: last quarter (90.0k) vs 12m ago -99.96% < -2%
Gross Margin: 42.90% > 18% (prev 44.07%; Δ -1.17% > 0.5%)
Asset Turnover: 20.84% > 50% (prev 20.93%; Δ -0.08% > 0%)
Interest Coverage Ratio: 4.63 > 6 (EBIT TTM 2.02b / Interest Expense TTM 437.0m)
Altman Z'' -0.52
A: -0.25 (Total Current Assets 17.8b - Total Current Liabilities 39.5b) / Total Assets 85.3b
B: 0.22 (Retained Earnings 18.4b / Total Assets 85.3b)
C: 0.02 (EBIT TTM 2.02b / Avg Total Assets 85.6b)
D: 0.28 (Book Value of Equity 18.3b / Total Liabilities 66.2b)
Altman-Z'' = -0.52 = B
Beneish M -2.95
DSRI: 1.06 (Receivables 11.6b/10.9b, Revenue 17.8b/18.0b)
GMI: 1.03 (GM 44.07% / 42.90%)
AQI: 1.01 (AQ_t 0.66 / AQ_t-1 0.66)
SGI: 0.99 (Revenue 17.8b / 18.0b)
TATA: 0.00 (NI 1.72b - CFO 1.53b) / TA 85.3b)
Beneish M = -2.95 (Cap -4..+1) = A
What is the price of L shares?

As of November 04, 2026, the stock is trading at USD 109.97 with a total of 882,785 shares traded. Over the past week, the price has changed by -0.95%, over one month by +4.07%, over three months by -5.35% and over the past year by +10.87%.

Current recommended Stop Loss: 107.30 (which is 2.4% or 1.5 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 -45.4%
Loews (L) - Fundamental Data Overview as of 04 November 2026
Market Cap USD = 22.8b (22.8b USD * 1.0 USD.USD)
P/E Trailing = 15.3997
P/E Forward = 12.1951
P/S = 1.2176
P/B = 1.1905
P/EG = 1.3215
Revenue TTM = 17.8b USD
EBIT TTM = 2.02b USD
EBITDA TTM = 2.63b USD
Long Term Debt = 8.44b USD (from longTermDebt, last fiscal year)
Short Term Debt = 521.0m USD (from shortTermDebt, last quarter)
Debt = 8.94b USD (from shortLongTermDebtTotal, last quarter)
Net Debt = 2.72b USD (calculated: Debt 8.94b - CCE 6.22b)
Enterprise Value = 25.5b USD (22.8b + Debt 8.94b - CCE 6.22b)
Interest Coverage Ratio = 4.63 (Ebit TTM 2.02b / Interest Expense TTM 437.0m)
EV/FCF = 67.23x (Enterprise Value 25.5b / FCF TTM 379.0m)
FCF Yield = 1.49% (FCF TTM 379.0m / Enterprise Value 25.5b)
FCF Margin = 2.12% (FCF TTM 379.0m / Revenue TTM 17.8b)
Net Margin = 9.66% (Net Income TTM 1.72b / Revenue TTM 17.8b)
Gross Margin = 42.90% ((Revenue TTM 17.8b - Cost of Revenue TTM 10.2b) / Revenue TTM)
Gross Margin QoQ = none% (prev 46.66%)
Tobins Q-Ratio = 0.30 (Enterprise Value 25.5b / Total Assets 85.3b)
Interest Expense / Debt = 4.89% (Interest Expense 437.0m / Debt 8.94b)
Taxrate = 3.02% (61.0m / 2.02b)
NOPAT = 1.96b (EBIT 2.02b * (1 - 3.02%))
Current Ratio = 0.45 (Total Current Assets 17.8b / Total Current Liabilities 39.5b)
Debt / Equity = 0.49 (Debt 8.94b / totalStockholderEquity, last quarter 18.3b)
Debt / EBITDA = 1.03 (Net Debt 2.72b / EBITDA 2.63b)
Debt / FCF = 7.17 (Net Debt 2.72b / FCF TTM 379.0m)
Total Stockholder Equity = 18.7b (last 4 quarters mean from totalStockholderEquity)
RoA = 2.01% (Net Income 1.72b / Total Assets 85.3b)
RoE = 9.22% (Net Income TTM 1.72b / Total Stockholder Equity 18.7b)
RoCE = 7.45% (EBIT 2.02b / Capital Employed (Equity 18.7b + L.T.Debt 8.44b))
RoIC = 2.43% (NOPAT 1.96b / Invested Capital 80.8b)
WACC = 5.40% (E(22.8b)/V(31.7b) * Re(5.66%) + D(8.94b)/V(31.7b) * Rd(4.89%) * (1-Tc(0.03)))
Discount Rate = 5.66% (= CAPM, Blume Beta Adj.)
Shares (quarterly) Correlation: -58.91 | Cagr: -96.89%
[DCF] Terminal Value 73.10% ; FCFF base≈1.55b ; Y1≈1.36b ; Y5≈1.09b
[DCF] Fair Price = 72.68 (EV 17.6b - Net Debt 2.72b = Equity 14.9b / Shares 204.4m; r=8.35% [WACC [floored]]; 5y FCF grow -15.0% → 2.50% )
EPS Correlation: 59.46 | EPS CAGR: 6.92% | SUE: N/A | # QB: 0
Revenue Correlation: 93.09 | Revenue CAGR: 5.44% | SUE: N/A | # QB: 0