AEL vs. LNC, CNO, NWLI, GL, PRI, FG, JXN, GNW, BHF, and VOYA
Should you be buying American Equity Investment Life stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Equity Investment Life include Lincoln National (LNC), CNO Financial Group (CNO), National Western Life Group (NWLI), Globe Life (GL), Primerica (PRI), F&G Annuities & Life (FG), Jackson Financial (JXN), Genworth Financial (GNW), Brighthouse Financial (BHF), and Voya Financial (VOYA).
American Equity Investment Life (NYSE:AEL) and Lincoln National (NYSE:LNC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Lincoln National received 58 more outperform votes than American Equity Investment Life when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.94% of users gave American Equity Investment Life an outperform vote while only 51.54% of users gave Lincoln National an outperform vote.
American Equity Investment Life presently has a consensus price target of $55.33, suggesting a potential downside of 2.01%. Lincoln National has a consensus price target of $29.90, suggesting a potential downside of 7.97%. Given American Equity Investment Life's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe American Equity Investment Life is more favorable than Lincoln National.
American Equity Investment Life has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lincoln National. Lincoln National is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Equity Investment Life, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
American Equity Investment Life has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lincoln National has a beta of 1.8, meaning that its share price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Lincoln National had 25 more articles in the media than American Equity Investment Life. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Lincoln National and 1 mentions for American Equity Investment Life. Lincoln National's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat American Equity Investment Life's score of 0.00 indicating that Lincoln National is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lincoln National has a net margin of 11.31% compared to American Equity Investment Life's net margin of 7.42%. American Equity Investment Life's return on equity of 25.15% beat Lincoln National's return on equity.
95.0% of American Equity Investment Life shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.8% of Lincoln National shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of American Equity Investment Life shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Lincoln National shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
American Equity Investment Life pays an annual dividend of $0.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Lincoln National pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. American Equity Investment Life pays out 17.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lincoln National pays out 24.6% 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.
Summary
American Equity Investment Life beats Lincoln National on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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