PRU vs. MET, MFC, SLF, PUK, CRBG, AEG, RGA, AMP, LYG, and BCS
Should you be buying Prudential Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Prudential Financial include MetLife (MET), Manulife Financial (MFC), Sun Life Financial (SLF), Prudential (PUK), Corebridge Financial (CRBG), Aegon (AEG), Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), Ameriprise Financial (AMP), Lloyds Banking Group (LYG), and Barclays (BCS). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Prudential Financial (NYSE:PRU) and MetLife (NYSE:MET) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.
56.8% of Prudential Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of MetLife shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Prudential Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of MetLife shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Prudential Financial had 1 more articles in the media than MetLife. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Prudential Financial and 11 mentions for MetLife. Prudential Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat MetLife's score of 0.27 indicating that Prudential Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Prudential Financial has higher earnings, but lower revenue than MetLife. Prudential Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MetLife, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Prudential Financial has a net margin of 3.76% compared to MetLife's net margin of 3.50%. MetLife's return on equity of 20.39% beat Prudential Financial's return on equity.
Prudential Financial presently has a consensus target price of $111.08, indicating a potential downside of 8.43%. MetLife has a consensus target price of $78.85, indicating a potential upside of 6.23%. Given MetLife's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe MetLife is more favorable than Prudential Financial.
Prudential Financial has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MetLife has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
MetLife received 77 more outperform votes than Prudential Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.51% of users gave MetLife an outperform vote while only 65.00% of users gave Prudential Financial an outperform vote.
Prudential Financial pays an annual dividend of $5.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. MetLife pays an annual dividend of $2.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Prudential Financial pays out 88.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. MetLife pays out 74.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
MetLife beats Prudential Financial on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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