MET vs. PRU, MFC, SLF, PUK, CRBG, AEG, AJG, TFC, AIG, and MFG
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), Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (AJG), Truist Financial (TFC), American International Group (AIG), and Mizuho Financial Group (MFG). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
MetLife (NYSE:MET) and Prudential Financial (NYSE:PRU) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation and risk.
MetLife pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Prudential Financial pays an annual dividend of $5.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. MetLife pays out 113.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Prudential Financial pays out 77.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Prudential Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
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 presently has a consensus price target of $79.23, suggesting a potential upside of 12.51%. Prudential Financial has a consensus price target of $111.42, suggesting a potential upside of 0.83%. Given MetLife's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe MetLife is more favorable than Prudential Financial.
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 company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Prudential Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Prudential Financial has a net margin of 4.89% compared to MetLife's net margin of 2.36%. MetLife's return on equity of 19.48% beat Prudential Financial's return on equity.
MetLife has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Prudential Financial has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, MetLife had 8 more articles in the media than Prudential Financial. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for MetLife and 14 mentions for Prudential Financial. Prudential Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat MetLife's score of 0.49 indicating that Prudential Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
MetLife received 73 more outperform votes than Prudential Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.48% of users gave MetLife an outperform vote while only 65.05% of users gave Prudential Financial an outperform vote.
Summary
MetLife beats Prudential Financial on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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