PUK vs. SLF, CRBG, AEG, RGA, PRU, PRI, GL, VOYA, MFC, and MET
Should you be buying Prudential stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Prudential include Sun Life Financial (SLF), Corebridge Financial (CRBG), Aegon (AEG), Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), Prudential Financial (PRU), Primerica (PRI), Globe Life (GL), Voya Financial (VOYA), Manulife Financial (MFC), and MetLife (MET). These companies are all part of the "life insurance" industry.
Prudential (NYSE:PUK) and Sun Life Financial (NYSE:SLF) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, profitability, valuation and dividends.
Sun Life Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Prudential.
Sun Life Financial received 37 more outperform votes than Prudential when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.67% of users gave Prudential an outperform vote while only 62.36% of users gave Sun Life Financial an outperform vote.
Prudential has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sun Life Financial has a beta of 1, indicating that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Prudential pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Sun Life Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Sun Life Financial pays out 59.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
1.9% of Prudential shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.3% of Sun Life Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Prudential shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Sun Life Financial had 9 more articles in the media than Prudential. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Sun Life Financial and 1 mentions for Prudential. Prudential's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Sun Life Financial's score of 0.60 indicating that Prudential is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sun Life Financial has a consensus target price of $77.00, suggesting a potential upside of 46.72%. Given Sun Life Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sun Life Financial is more favorable than Prudential.
Sun Life Financial has a net margin of 7.79% compared to Prudential's net margin of 0.00%. Sun Life Financial's return on equity of 17.30% beat Prudential's return on equity.
Summary
Sun Life Financial beats Prudential on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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