BRO vs. AON, ERIE, WTW, RYAN, EQH, FITB, MTB, EQR, TW, and PUK
Should you be buying Brown & Brown stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brown & Brown include AON (AON), Erie Indemnity (ERIE), Willis Towers Watson Public (WTW), Ryan Specialty (RYAN), Equitable (EQH), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), M&T Bank (MTB), Equity Residential (EQR), Tradeweb Markets (TW), and Prudential (PUK). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Brown & Brown (NYSE:BRO) and AON (NYSE:AON) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership and community ranking.
71.0% of Brown & Brown shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.1% of AON shares are held by institutional investors. 16.4% of Brown & Brown shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of AON shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Brown & Brown pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. AON pays an annual dividend of $2.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Brown & Brown pays out 17.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AON pays out 19.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Brown & Brown currently has a consensus target price of $86.80, suggesting a potential upside of 5.20%. AON has a consensus target price of $334.69, suggesting a potential upside of 7.61%. Given AON's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe AON is more favorable than Brown & Brown.
In the previous week, Brown & Brown had 64 more articles in the media than AON. MarketBeat recorded 78 mentions for Brown & Brown and 14 mentions for AON. AON's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Brown & Brown's score of 0.26 indicating that AON is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Brown & Brown has a net margin of 20.44% compared to AON's net margin of 19.17%. Brown & Brown's return on equity of 15.46% beat AON's return on equity.
AON has higher revenue and earnings than Brown & Brown. AON is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brown & Brown, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Brown & Brown has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AON has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
AON received 136 more outperform votes than Brown & Brown when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.57% of users gave AON an outperform vote while only 55.14% of users gave Brown & Brown an outperform vote.
Summary
AON beats Brown & Brown on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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