CIA vs. AFL, MET, PRU, UNM, PRI, LNC, CNO, ABL, SNFCA, and GOCO
Should you be buying Citizens stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Citizens include Aflac (AFL), MetLife (MET), Prudential Financial (PRU), Unum Group (UNM), Primerica (PRI), Lincoln National (LNC), CNO Financial Group (CNO), Abacus Life (ABL), Security National Financial (SNFCA), and GoHealth (GOCO). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Citizens vs. Its Competitors
Citizens (NYSE:CIA) and Aflac (NYSE:AFL) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership and risk.
13.7% of Citizens shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.4% of Aflac shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Citizens shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Aflac shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Citizens has a beta of 0.36, suggesting that its stock price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aflac has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Aflac had 17 more articles in the media than Citizens. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Aflac and 4 mentions for Citizens. Aflac's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Citizens' score of -0.22 indicating that Aflac is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Aflac has a net margin of 21.27% compared to Citizens' net margin of 3.60%. Aflac's return on equity of 15.55% beat Citizens' return on equity.
Aflac has higher revenue and earnings than Citizens. Aflac is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Citizens, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Aflac has a consensus price target of $106.50, suggesting a potential upside of 1.80%. Given Aflac's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Aflac is more favorable than Citizens.
Summary
Aflac beats Citizens on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NYSE:CIA) was last updated on 7/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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