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Should you be buying Chubb stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chubb include Manulife Financial (MFC), Sun Life Financial (SLF), Willis Towers Watson Public (WTW), Prudential (PUK), Ryan Specialty (RYAN), Principal Financial Group (PFG), Corebridge Financial (CRBG), Equitable (EQH), Aegon (AEG), and Everest Group (EG). These companies are all part of the "insurance" industry.
Chubb vs.
Chubb (NYSE:CB) and Manulife Financial (NYSE:MFC) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, dividends and risk.
Chubb has higher revenue and earnings than Manulife Financial. Chubb is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Manulife Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Chubb currently has a consensus price target of $307.53, indicating a potential upside of 6.20%. Manulife Financial has a consensus price target of $45.67, indicating a potential upside of 43.45%. Given Manulife Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Manulife Financial is more favorable than Chubb.
In the previous week, Chubb had 26 more articles in the media than Manulife Financial. MarketBeat recorded 42 mentions for Chubb and 16 mentions for Manulife Financial. Manulife Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Chubb's score of 1.12 indicating that Manulife Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Chubb has a net margin of 16.63% compared to Manulife Financial's net margin of 10.08%. Manulife Financial's return on equity of 15.98% beat Chubb's return on equity.
83.8% of Chubb shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.6% of Manulife Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Chubb shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Manulife Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Chubb pays an annual dividend of $3.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Manulife Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Chubb pays out 18.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Manulife Financial pays out 63.9% 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. Chubb has raised its dividend for 31 consecutive years and Manulife Financial has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years.
Chubb received 273 more outperform votes than Manulife Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.95% of users gave Manulife Financial an outperform vote while only 62.86% of users gave Chubb an outperform vote.
Chubb has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Manulife Financial has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Summary
Chubb beats Manulife Financial on 14 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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