MFC vs. MET, PRU, SLF, PUK, CRBG, AEG, RGA, PRI, GL, and VOYA
Should you be buying Manulife Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Manulife Financial include MetLife (MET), Prudential Financial (PRU), Sun Life Financial (SLF), 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.
MetLife (NYSE:MET) and Manulife Financial (NYSE:MFC) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, valuation, risk and analyst recommendations.
Manulife Financial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than MetLife. Manulife Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MetLife, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, MetLife had 2 more articles in the media than Manulife Financial. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for MetLife and 5 mentions for Manulife Financial. MetLife's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Manulife Financial's score of 1.25 indicating that Manulife Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Manulife Financial has a net margin of 9.28% compared to Manulife Financial's net margin of 3.50%. Manulife Financial's return on equity of 20.39% beat MetLife's return on equity.
MetLife received 469 more outperform votes than Manulife Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.53% of users gave MetLife an outperform vote while only 67.96% of users gave Manulife Financial an outperform vote.
MetLife currently has a consensus price target of $79.08, suggesting a potential upside of 12.87%. Manulife Financial has a consensus price target of $33.33, suggesting a potential upside of 28.85%. Given MetLife's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Manulife Financial is more favorable than MetLife.
89.8% of MetLife shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.6% of Manulife Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of MetLife shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Manulife Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
MetLife pays an annual dividend of $2.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Manulife Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. MetLife pays out 74.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Manulife Financial pays out 67.4% 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. MetLife has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years and Manulife Financial has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years. Manulife Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
MetLife has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Manulife Financial has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
MetLife beats Manulife Financial on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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