AFL vs. CNC, HUM, PFG, IBKR, TRV, SPG, MFG, ALL, O, and PSA
Should you be buying Aflac stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aflac include Centene (CNC), Humana (HUM), Principal Financial Group (PFG), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), Travelers Companies (TRV), Simon Property Group (SPG), Mizuho Financial Group (MFG), Allstate (ALL), Realty Income (O), and Public Storage (PSA).
Centene (NYSE:CNC) and Aflac (NYSE:AFL) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and risk.
Centene received 439 more outperform votes than Aflac when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.24% of users gave Centene an outperform vote while only 57.44% of users gave Aflac an outperform vote.
Centene presently has a consensus target price of $85.38, suggesting a potential upside of 12.07%. Aflac has a consensus target price of $82.15, suggesting a potential downside of 2.53%. Given Aflac's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Centene is more favorable than Aflac.
Centene has a beta of 0.38, suggesting that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aflac has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Aflac has a net margin of 24.92% compared to Aflac's net margin of 1.75%. Centene's return on equity of 17.59% beat Aflac's return on equity.
93.6% of Centene shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.4% of Aflac shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Centene shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Aflac shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Aflac had 1 more articles in the media than Centene. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Aflac and 9 mentions for Centene. Aflac's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Centene's score of 0.85 indicating that Centene is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Aflac has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Centene. Aflac is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Centene, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Centene beats Aflac on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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