PUK vs. MET, MFC, PRU, SLF, CRBG, AEG, RGA, PRI, GL, and VOYA
Should you be buying Prudential stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Prudential include MetLife (MET), Manulife Financial (MFC), Prudential Financial (PRU), Sun Life Financial (SLF), Corebridge Financial (CRBG), Aegon (AEG), Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), Primerica (PRI), Globe Life (GL), and Voya Financial (VOYA). These companies are all part of the "life insurance" industry.
Prudential (NYSE:PUK) and MetLife (NYSE:MET) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings and media sentiment.
MetLife has a net margin of 3.50% compared to Prudential's net margin of 0.00%. MetLife's return on equity of 20.39% beat Prudential's return on equity.
Prudential has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MetLife has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, MetLife had 6 more articles in the media than Prudential. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for MetLife and 3 mentions for Prudential. MetLife's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Prudential's score of -0.33 indicating that MetLife is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
1.9% of Prudential shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of MetLife shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Prudential shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of MetLife shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
MetLife received 475 more outperform votes than Prudential when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.53% of users gave MetLife an outperform vote while only 62.41% of users gave Prudential an outperform vote.
Prudential has higher earnings, but lower revenue than MetLife.
MetLife has a consensus price target of $79.08, indicating a potential upside of 13.98%. Given MetLife's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe MetLife is more favorable than Prudential.
Prudential pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. MetLife pays an annual dividend of $2.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. MetLife pays out 74.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
MetLife beats Prudential on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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