VOYA vs. GL, PRI, JXN, LNC, FG, AEL, BHF, GNW, NWLI, and RGA
Should you be buying Voya Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Voya Financial include Globe Life (GL), Primerica (PRI), Jackson Financial (JXN), Lincoln National (LNC), F&G Annuities & Life (FG), American Equity Investment Life (AEL), 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.
Voya Financial (NYSE:VOYA) and Globe Life (NYSE:GL) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, profitability, earnings, valuation and media sentiment.
Voya Financial has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Globe Life has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Voya Financial currently has a consensus target price of $82.50, indicating a potential upside of 16.94%. Globe Life has a consensus target price of $114.33, indicating a potential upside of 43.85%. Given Globe Life's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Globe Life is more favorable than Voya Financial.
96.1% of Voya Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.6% of Globe Life shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Voya Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Globe Life shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Voya Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Globe Life pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Voya Financial pays out 22.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Globe Life pays out 9.2% 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.
In the previous week, Globe Life had 19 more articles in the media than Voya Financial. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for Globe Life and 15 mentions for Voya Financial. Voya Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Globe Life's score of 0.47 indicating that Voya Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Globe Life has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Voya Financial. Globe Life is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Voya Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Globe Life has a net margin of 18.07% compared to Voya Financial's net margin of 10.48%. Globe Life's return on equity of 23.91% beat Voya Financial's return on equity.
Voya Financial received 532 more outperform votes than Globe Life when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.67% of users gave Voya Financial an outperform vote while only 36.62% of users gave Globe Life an outperform vote.
Summary
Globe Life beats Voya Financial on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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