MET vs. PRU, MFC, SLF, PUK, CRBG, AEG, RGA, AIG, TFC, and IBKR
Should you be buying MetLife stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MetLife include Prudential Financial (PRU), Manulife Financial (MFC), Sun Life Financial (SLF), Prudential (PUK), Corebridge Financial (CRBG), Aegon (AEG), Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), American International Group (AIG), Truist Financial (TFC), and Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
MetLife (NYSE:MET) and Prudential Financial (NYSE:PRU) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, risk, community ranking and dividends.
MetLife currently has a consensus target price of $79.08, suggesting a potential upside of 10.10%. Prudential Financial has a consensus target price of $115.25, suggesting a potential downside of 2.68%. Given MetLife's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe MetLife is more favorable than Prudential Financial.
MetLife pays an annual dividend of $2.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Prudential Financial pays an annual dividend of $5.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. MetLife pays out 74.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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.
89.8% of MetLife shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.8% of Prudential Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of MetLife shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Prudential Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Prudential Financial has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
MetLife has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Prudential Financial has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Prudential Financial had 2 more articles in the media than MetLife. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Prudential Financial and 17 mentions for MetLife. Prudential Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat MetLife's score of 0.58 indicating that Prudential Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
MetLife received 77 more outperform votes than Prudential Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.53% of users gave MetLife an outperform vote while only 65.03% of users gave Prudential Financial an outperform vote.
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.
Summary
MetLife beats Prudential Financial on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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