BHF vs. GNW, NWLI, AEL, LNC, FG, JXN, VOYA, GL, PRI, and UCBI
Should you be buying Brighthouse Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brighthouse Financial include Genworth Financial (GNW), National Western Life Group (NWLI), American Equity Investment Life (AEL), Lincoln National (LNC), F&G Annuities & Life (FG), Jackson Financial (JXN), Voya Financial (VOYA), Globe Life (GL), Primerica (PRI), and United Community Banks (UCBI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Brighthouse Financial (NASDAQ:BHF) and Genworth Financial (NYSE:GNW) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Brighthouse Financial presently has a consensus price target of $51.14, indicating a potential upside of 4.39%. Genworth Financial has a consensus price target of $7.00, indicating a potential upside of 7.86%. Given Genworth Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Genworth Financial is more favorable than Brighthouse Financial.
In the previous week, Genworth Financial had 9 more articles in the media than Brighthouse Financial. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Genworth Financial and 3 mentions for Brighthouse Financial. Brighthouse Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Genworth Financial's score of 0.71 indicating that Brighthouse Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Genworth Financial received 181 more outperform votes than Brighthouse Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.13% of users gave Genworth Financial an outperform vote while only 50.42% of users gave Brighthouse Financial an outperform vote.
Brighthouse Financial has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Genworth Financial has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
81.2% of Brighthouse Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of Genworth Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Brighthouse Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Genworth Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Genworth Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Brighthouse Financial. Brighthouse Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Genworth Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Genworth Financial has a net margin of 1.24% compared to Brighthouse Financial's net margin of -27.01%. Brighthouse Financial's return on equity of 20.71% beat Genworth Financial's return on equity.
Summary
Genworth Financial beats Brighthouse Financial on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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