AEG vs. CRBG, RGA, PUK, PRI, VOYA, JXN, LNC, FG, AEL, and SLF
Should you be buying Aegon stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aegon include Corebridge Financial (CRBG), Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), Prudential (PUK), Primerica (PRI), Voya Financial (VOYA), Jackson Financial (JXN), Lincoln National (LNC), F&G Annuities & Life (FG), American Equity Investment Life (AEL), and Sun Life Financial (SLF). These companies are all part of the "life insurance" industry.
Aegon (NYSE:AEG) and Corebridge Financial (NYSE:CRBG) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.
Corebridge Financial has a net margin of 5.92% compared to Aegon's net margin of 0.00%. Corebridge Financial's return on equity of 23.11% beat Aegon's return on equity.
Aegon pays an annual dividend of $0.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Corebridge Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Corebridge Financial pays out 54.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Corebridge Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Aegon.
4.3% of Aegon shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.3% of Corebridge Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Corebridge Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Aegon had 5 more articles in the media than Corebridge Financial. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Aegon and 3 mentions for Corebridge Financial. Corebridge Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.31 beat Aegon's score of 0.38 indicating that Corebridge Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Aegon received 344 more outperform votes than Corebridge Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.64% of users gave Corebridge Financial an outperform vote while only 54.15% of users gave Aegon an outperform vote.
Corebridge Financial has a consensus target price of $29.08, indicating a potential upside of 6.92%. Given Corebridge Financial's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Corebridge Financial is more favorable than Aegon.
Aegon has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Corebridge Financial has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Corebridge Financial beats Aegon on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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