CIA vs. AFL, MET, PRU, UNM, PRI, LNC, CNO, AAME, MFC, and SLF
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), Atlantic American (AAME), Manulife Financial (MFC), and Sun Life Financial (SLF). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Citizens vs. Its Competitors
Aflac (NYSE:AFL) and Citizens (NYSE:CIA) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and institutional ownership.
Aflac currently has a consensus target price of $104.93, suggesting a potential upside of 2.21%. Given Aflac's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Aflac is more favorable than Citizens.
Aflac received 362 more outperform votes than Citizens when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.76% of users gave Citizens an outperform vote while only 55.61% of users gave Aflac an outperform vote.
Aflac has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Citizens has a beta of 0.38, indicating that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Aflac has a net margin of 28.76% compared to Citizens' net margin of 8.87%. Aflac's return on equity of 16.20% beat Citizens' return on equity.
67.4% of Aflac shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.7% of Citizens shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Aflac shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Citizens shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Aflac had 18 more articles in the media than Citizens. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Aflac and 3 mentions for Citizens. Aflac's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Citizens' score of -0.34 indicating that Aflac is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
Summary
Aflac beats Citizens on 15 of the 19 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 6/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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