BNRE vs. AIZ, PB, BOKF, ESNT, FAF, ADC, OMF, FR, SSB, and HLNE
Should you be buying Brookfield Reinsurance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Reinsurance include Assurant (AIZ), Prosperity Bancshares (PB), BOK Financial (BOKF), Essent Group (ESNT), First American Financial (FAF), Agree Realty (ADC), OneMain (OMF), First Industrial Realty Trust (FR), SouthState (SSB), and Hamilton Lane (HLNE). 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 better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, risk and dividends.
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. Assurant is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Brookfield Reinsurance has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Assurant has a beta of 0.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Assurant has a consensus price target of $192.20, indicating a potential upside of 11.18%. Given Assurant's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Assurant is more favorable than Brookfield Reinsurance.
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.
7.2% of Brookfield Reinsurance shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of Assurant shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Brookfield Reinsurance shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Assurant shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
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.
Assurant has a net margin of 5.77% compared to Brookfield Reinsurance's net margin of 0.07%. Assurant's return on equity of 18.36% beat Brookfield Reinsurance's return on equity.
In the previous week, Brookfield Reinsurance and Brookfield Reinsurance both had 3 articles in the media. Assurant's average media sentiment score of 1.61 beat Brookfield Reinsurance's score of 0.73 indicating that Assurant is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Assurant beats Brookfield Reinsurance on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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