CNO vs. UNM, AX, MPW, FBP, SITC, AVAL, GBDC, MGRC, HASI, and HTGC
Should you be buying CNO Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CNO Financial Group include Unum Group (UNM), Axos Financial (AX), Medical Properties Trust (MPW), First BanCorp. (FBP), SITE Centers (SITC), Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores (AVAL), Golub Capital BDC (GBDC), McGrath RentCorp (MGRC), Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI), and Hercules Capital (HTGC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
CNO Financial Group (NYSE:CNO) and Unum Group (NYSE:UNM) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and profitability.
CNO Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Unum Group pays an annual dividend of $1.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. CNO Financial Group pays out 24.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Unum Group pays out 22.5% 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. Unum Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Unum Group had 4 more articles in the media than CNO Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Unum Group and 7 mentions for CNO Financial Group. Unum Group's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat CNO Financial Group's score of 0.27 indicating that Unum Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Unum Group has a net margin of 10.36% compared to CNO Financial Group's net margin of 6.67%. CNO Financial Group's return on equity of 17.51% beat Unum Group's return on equity.
CNO Financial Group presently has a consensus price target of $27.50, indicating a potential upside of 7.05%. Unum Group has a consensus price target of $56.38, indicating a potential upside of 11.00%. Given Unum Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Unum Group is more favorable than CNO Financial Group.
CNO Financial Group has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Unum Group has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
95.4% of CNO Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.6% of Unum Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of CNO Financial Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Unum Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Unum Group has higher revenue and earnings than CNO Financial Group. Unum Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CNO Financial Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Unum Group received 4 more outperform votes than CNO Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.17% of users gave CNO Financial Group an outperform vote while only 46.37% of users gave Unum Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Unum Group beats CNO Financial Group on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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