AIZ vs. BNRE, NLY, SEIC, BSAC, JEF, BXP, HLI, JLL, REXR, and UNM
Should you be buying Assurant stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Assurant include Brookfield Reinsurance (BNRE), Annaly Capital Management (NLY), SEI Investments (SEIC), Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC), Jefferies Financial Group (JEF), Boston Properties (BXP), Houlihan Lokey (HLI), Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), Rexford Industrial Realty (REXR), and Unum Group (UNM). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Brookfield Reinsurance (NYSE:BNRE) and Assurant (NYSE:AIZ) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and profitability.
Brookfield Reinsurance pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Assurant pays an annual dividend of $2.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Brookfield Reinsurance pays out 114.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Assurant pays out 24.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brookfield Reinsurance has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Assurant has raised its dividend for 20 consecutive years. Assurant is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Brookfield Reinsurance and Brookfield Reinsurance both had 3 articles in the media. Brookfield Reinsurance's average media sentiment score of 1.65 beat Assurant's score of 0.73 indicating that Assurant is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Brookfield Reinsurance has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Assurant. Assurant is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookfield Reinsurance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Assurant received 285 more outperform votes than Brookfield Reinsurance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.69% of users gave Assurant an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Brookfield Reinsurance an outperform vote.
7.2% of Brookfield Reinsurance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of Assurant shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Brookfield Reinsurance shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Assurant shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Brookfield Reinsurance has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Assurant has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Assurant has a consensus target price of $192.20, suggesting a potential upside of 11.18%. Given Brookfield Reinsurance's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Assurant is more favorable than Brookfield Reinsurance.
Assurant has a net margin of 5.77% compared to Assurant's net margin of 0.07%. Brookfield Reinsurance's return on equity of 18.36% beat Assurant's return on equity.
Summary
Assurant beats Brookfield Reinsurance on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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