EQH vs. MFC, SLF, WTW, PUK, RYAN, EG, PFG, CRBG, AEG, and KNSL
Should you be buying Equitable stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Equitable include Manulife Financial (MFC), Sun Life Financial (SLF), Willis Towers Watson Public (WTW), Prudential (PUK), Ryan Specialty (RYAN), Everest Group (EG), Principal Financial Group (PFG), Corebridge Financial (CRBG), Aegon (AEG), and Kinsale Capital Group (KNSL). These companies are all part of the "insurance" industry.
Equitable vs.
Equitable (NYSE:EQH) and Manulife Financial (NYSE:MFC) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, risk and profitability.
Equitable presently has a consensus price target of $61.33, indicating a potential upside of 21.48%. Manulife Financial has a consensus price target of $45.50, indicating a potential upside of 44.17%. Given Manulife Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Manulife Financial is more favorable than Equitable.
Manulife Financial received 176 more outperform votes than Equitable when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.05% of users gave Manulife Financial an outperform vote while only 62.01% of users gave Equitable an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Equitable had 11 more articles in the media than Manulife Financial. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Equitable and 11 mentions for Manulife Financial. Manulife Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.50 beat Equitable's score of 1.04 indicating that Manulife Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Equitable pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Manulife Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.21 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Equitable pays out 25.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Manulife Financial pays out 58.5% 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. Manulife Financial has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years. Manulife Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
92.7% of Equitable shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.6% of Manulife Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Equitable shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Manulife Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Manulife Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Equitable. Equitable is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Manulife Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Equitable has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Manulife Financial has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Equitable has a net margin of 10.51% compared to Manulife Financial's net margin of 10.08%. Equitable's return on equity of 85.70% beat Manulife Financial's return on equity.
Summary
Manulife Financial beats Equitable on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:EQH) was last updated on 5/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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