PHNX vs. SLA, OMU, HSD, OML, PRU, STAN, LGEN, AV, SMT, and AIBG
Should you be buying Phoenix Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Phoenix Group include Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA), Old Mutual (OMU), Hansard Global (HSD), Old Mutual (OML), Prudential (PRU), Standard Chartered (STAN), Legal & General Group (LGEN), Aviva (AV), Scottish Mortgage (SMT), and AIB Group (AIBG).
Standard Life Aberdeen (LON:SLA) and Phoenix Group (LON:PHNX) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, profitability, risk, earnings, dividends and media sentiment.
55.8% of Phoenix Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.0% of Phoenix Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Phoenix Group received 11 more outperform votes than Standard Life Aberdeen when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.00% of users gave Standard Life Aberdeen an outperform vote while only 57.58% of users gave Phoenix Group an outperform vote.
Standard Life Aberdeen has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Phoenix Group. Phoenix Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Standard Life Aberdeen, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Phoenix Group had 3 more articles in the media than Standard Life Aberdeen. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Phoenix Group and 0 mentions for Standard Life Aberdeen. Standard Life Aberdeen's average media sentiment score of 1.53 beat Phoenix Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Phoenix Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Standard Life Aberdeen pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Phoenix Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 53 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.9%. Standard Life Aberdeen pays out 0.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Phoenix Group pays out -37,857.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Phoenix Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Phoenix Group has a consensus price target of GBX 614.60, indicating a potential upside of 26.72%. Given Standard Life Aberdeen's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Phoenix Group is more favorable than Standard Life Aberdeen.
Standard Life Aberdeen has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Standard Life Aberdeen's net margin of -0.57%. Phoenix Group's return on equity of 0.00% beat Standard Life Aberdeen's return on equity.
Summary
Phoenix Group beats Standard Life Aberdeen on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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