PRU vs. SLA, PHNX, OMU, HSD, OML, BNC, LSEG, LLOY, BARC, and NWG
Should you be buying Prudential stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Prudential include Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA), Phoenix Group (PHNX), Old Mutual (OMU), Hansard Global (HSD), Old Mutual (OML), Banco Santander (BNC), London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY), Barclays (BARC), and NatWest Group (NWG).
Prudential (LON:PRU) and Standard Life Aberdeen (LON:SLA) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation and risk.
Prudential pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Standard Life Aberdeen pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Prudential pays out 3,469.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Standard Life Aberdeen pays out 0.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
59.5% of Prudential shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Prudential shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Prudential has a net margin of 15.41% compared to Standard Life Aberdeen's net margin of 0.00%. Prudential's return on equity of 9.82% beat Standard Life Aberdeen's return on equity.
Prudential presently has a consensus price target of GBX 1,522.50, indicating a potential upside of 99.02%. Given Prudential's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Prudential is more favorable than Standard Life Aberdeen.
Prudential received 821 more outperform votes than Standard Life Aberdeen when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.62% of users gave Prudential an outperform vote while only 70.00% of users gave Standard Life Aberdeen an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Prudential had 5 more articles in the media than Standard Life Aberdeen. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Prudential and 0 mentions for Standard Life Aberdeen. Standard Life Aberdeen's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Prudential's score of -0.06 indicating that Standard Life Aberdeen is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Prudential has higher revenue and earnings than Standard Life Aberdeen. Standard Life Aberdeen is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Prudential, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Prudential beats Standard Life Aberdeen on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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