SLF vs. MET, MFC, PRU, PUK, CRBG, AEG, RGA, PRI, GL, and VOYA
Should you be buying Sun Life Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sun Life Financial include MetLife (MET), Manulife Financial (MFC), Prudential Financial (PRU), Prudential (PUK), 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.
Sun Life Financial (NYSE:SLF) and MetLife (NYSE:MET) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and dividends.
Sun Life Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.35 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. MetLife pays an annual dividend of $2.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Sun Life Financial pays out 60.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MetLife pays out 74.9% 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. Sun Life Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
52.3% of Sun Life Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of MetLife shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of MetLife shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Sun Life Financial has higher earnings, but lower revenue than MetLife. Sun Life Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MetLife, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MetLife received 438 more outperform votes than Sun Life Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.53% of users gave MetLife an outperform vote while only 62.36% of users gave Sun Life Financial an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Sun Life Financial had 2 more articles in the media than MetLife. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Sun Life Financial and 8 mentions for MetLife. Sun Life Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat MetLife's score of 0.47 indicating that Sun Life Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sun Life Financial has a beta of 1, indicating that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, MetLife has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sun Life Financial has a net margin of 8.94% compared to MetLife's net margin of 3.50%. MetLife's return on equity of 20.39% beat Sun Life Financial's return on equity.
Sun Life Financial presently has a consensus target price of $77.00, suggesting a potential upside of 53.60%. MetLife has a consensus target price of $79.08, suggesting a potential upside of 9.27%. Given Sun Life Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Sun Life Financial is more favorable than MetLife.
Summary
Sun Life Financial beats MetLife on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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