PFG vs. UNM, AFL, LPLA, VTR, HBAN, WRB, BSBR, CINF, SYF, and BEKE
Should you be buying Principal Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Principal Financial Group include Unum Group (UNM), Aflac (AFL), LPL Financial (LPLA), Ventas (VTR), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Banco Santander (Brasil) (BSBR), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), Synchrony Financial (SYF), and KE (BEKE). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Unum Group (NYSE:UNM) and Principal Financial Group (NYSE:PFG) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and earnings.
Unum Group pays an annual dividend of $1.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Principal Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $2.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Unum Group pays out 21.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Principal Financial Group pays out 52.7% 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. Unum Group has raised its dividend for 15 consecutive years and Principal Financial Group has raised its dividend for 16 consecutive years. Principal Financial Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
86.6% of Unum Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.1% of Principal Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Unum Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Principal Financial Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Unum Group presently has a consensus target price of $57.38, suggesting a potential upside of 8.07%. Principal Financial Group has a consensus target price of $80.30, suggesting a potential downside of 5.67%. Given Principal Financial Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Unum Group is more favorable than Principal Financial Group.
Unum Group has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Principal Financial Group has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Unum Group has a net margin of 10.52% compared to Unum Group's net margin of 8.70%. Principal Financial Group's return on equity of 16.02% beat Unum Group's return on equity.
Unum Group received 378 more outperform votes than Principal Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 46.44% of users gave Unum Group an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Principal Financial Group an outperform vote.
Unum Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Principal Financial Group. Unum Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Principal Financial Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Principal Financial Group had 7 more articles in the media than Unum Group. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Principal Financial Group and 5 mentions for Unum Group. Unum Group's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Principal Financial Group's score of 0.40 indicating that Principal Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Unum Group beats Principal Financial Group on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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