NWLI vs. FFG, BHF, GNW, IHC, VERY, LNC, AEL, CNO, CIA, and MET
Should you be buying National Western Life Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of National Western Life Group include FBL Financial Group (FFG), Brighthouse Financial (BHF), Genworth Financial (GNW), Independence (IHC), Vericity (VERY), Lincoln National (LNC), American Equity Investment Life (AEL), CNO Financial Group (CNO), Citizens (CIA), and MetLife (MET). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
FBL Financial Group (NYSE:FFG) and National Western Life Group (NASDAQ:NWLI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
FBL Financial Group has a beta of 0.08, suggesting that its share price is 92% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, National Western Life Group has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
National Western Life Group has a net margin of 20.22% compared to National Western Life Group's net margin of 13.03%. FBL Financial Group's return on equity of 6.40% beat National Western Life Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, National Western Life Group had 4 more articles in the media than FBL Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for National Western Life Group and 0 mentions for FBL Financial Group. FBL Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat National Western Life Group's score of 0.00 indicating that National Western Life Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
27.0% of FBL Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.6% of National Western Life Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of FBL Financial Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.5% of National Western Life Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
National Western Life Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than FBL Financial Group. National Western Life Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FBL Financial Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
FBL Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. National Western Life Group pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. FBL Financial Group pays out 55.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. National Western Life Group pays out 0.8% 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.
FBL Financial Group received 131 more outperform votes than National Western Life Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.19% of users gave National Western Life Group an outperform vote while only 50.54% of users gave FBL Financial Group an outperform vote.
Summary
National Western Life Group beats FBL Financial Group on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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