JXN vs. FG, LNC, AEL, VOYA, PRI, GL, BHF, GNW, NWLI, and RGA
Should you be buying Jackson Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Jackson Financial include F&G Annuities & Life (FG), Lincoln National (LNC), American Equity Investment Life (AEL), Voya Financial (VOYA), Primerica (PRI), Globe Life (GL), Brighthouse Financial (BHF), Genworth Financial (GNW), National Western Life Group (NWLI), and Reinsurance Group of America (RGA). These companies are all part of the "life insurance" industry.
F&G Annuities & Life (NYSE:FG) and Jackson Financial (NYSE:JXN) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, profitability, valuation, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
F&G Annuities & Life has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Jackson Financial has a beta of 1.54, suggesting that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
95.9% of F&G Annuities & Life shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.0% of Jackson Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of F&G Annuities & Life shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Jackson Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Jackson Financial had 7 more articles in the media than F&G Annuities & Life. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Jackson Financial and 15 mentions for F&G Annuities & Life. F&G Annuities & Life's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Jackson Financial's score of 0.10 indicating that Jackson Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
F&G Annuities & Life presently has a consensus target price of $47.50, indicating a potential upside of 15.52%. Jackson Financial has a consensus target price of $62.80, indicating a potential downside of 17.27%. Given Jackson Financial's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe F&G Annuities & Life is more favorable than Jackson Financial.
F&G Annuities & Life has a net margin of 4.85% compared to F&G Annuities & Life's net margin of 0.00%. Jackson Financial's return on equity of 13.22% beat F&G Annuities & Life's return on equity.
F&G Annuities & Life pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Jackson Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. F&G Annuities & Life pays out 42.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Jackson Financial pays out 7.4% 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. Jackson Financial has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Jackson Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Jackson Financial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than F&G Annuities & Life. Jackson Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than F&G Annuities & Life, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
F&G Annuities & Life received 137 more outperform votes than Jackson Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.68% of users gave F&G Annuities & Life an outperform vote while only 10.87% of users gave Jackson Financial an outperform vote.
Summary
F&G Annuities & Life beats Jackson Financial on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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