BHF vs. FFG, AEL, PRI, GL, VOYA, JXN, FG, LNC, GNW, and NWLI
Should you be buying Brighthouse Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brighthouse Financial include FBL Financial Group (FFG), American Equity Investment Life (AEL), Primerica (PRI), Globe Life (GL), Voya Financial (VOYA), Jackson Financial (JXN), F&G Annuities & Life (FG), Lincoln National (LNC), Genworth Financial (GNW), and National Western Life Group (NWLI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
FBL Financial Group (NYSE:FFG) and Brighthouse Financial (NASDAQ:BHF) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Brighthouse Financial received 81 more outperform votes than FBL Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 50.07% of users gave Brighthouse Financial an outperform vote while only 49.91% of users gave FBL Financial Group an outperform vote.
27.0% of FBL Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.2% of Brighthouse Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of FBL Financial Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Brighthouse Financial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
FBL Financial Group has a net margin of 13.03% compared to FBL Financial Group's net margin of -38.05%. FBL Financial Group's return on equity of 23.49% beat Brighthouse Financial's return on equity.
Brighthouse Financial has a consensus price target of $51.56, suggesting a potential upside of 5.00%. Given FBL Financial Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Brighthouse Financial is more favorable than FBL Financial Group.
In the previous week, Brighthouse Financial had 7 more articles in the media than FBL Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Brighthouse Financial and 1 mentions for FBL Financial Group. FBL Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Brighthouse Financial's score of 0.00 indicating that Brighthouse Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
FBL Financial Group has a beta of 0.08, meaning that its share price is 92% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brighthouse Financial has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
FBL Financial Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Brighthouse Financial. Brighthouse Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FBL Financial Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Brighthouse Financial beats FBL Financial Group on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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