FG vs. LNC, AEL, JXN, BHF, GNW, VOYA, NWLI, PRI, RGA, and AEG
Should you be buying F&G Annuities & Life stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of F&G Annuities & Life include Lincoln National (LNC), American Equity Investment Life (AEL), Jackson Financial (JXN), Brighthouse Financial (BHF), Genworth Financial (GNW), Voya Financial (VOYA), National Western Life Group (NWLI), Primerica (PRI), Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), and Aegon (AEG). These companies are all part of the "life insurance" industry.
F&G Annuities & Life (NYSE:FG) and Lincoln National (NYSE:LNC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, valuation and earnings.
F&G Annuities & Life pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Lincoln National pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. F&G Annuities & Life pays out -175.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lincoln National pays out -36.1% 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.
F&G Annuities & Life has a net margin of -1.29% compared to Lincoln National's net margin of -6.46%. Lincoln National's return on equity of 20.81% beat F&G Annuities & Life's return on equity.
F&G Annuities & Life presently has a consensus price target of $38.33, suggesting a potential downside of 0.77%. Lincoln National has a consensus price target of $28.45, suggesting a potential upside of 1.77%. Given Lincoln National's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Lincoln National is more favorable than F&G Annuities & Life.
95.9% of F&G Annuities & Life shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.8% of Lincoln National shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of F&G Annuities & Life shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Lincoln National shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
F&G Annuities & Life has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lincoln National. F&G Annuities & Life is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lincoln National, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lincoln National received 342 more outperform votes than F&G Annuities & Life when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.68% of users gave F&G Annuities & Life an outperform vote while only 51.60% of users gave Lincoln National an outperform vote.
F&G Annuities & Life has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lincoln National has a beta of 1.81, suggesting that its share price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Lincoln National had 7 more articles in the media than F&G Annuities & Life. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Lincoln National and 4 mentions for F&G Annuities & Life. Lincoln National's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat F&G Annuities & Life's score of 0.27 indicating that Lincoln National is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
F&G Annuities & Life and Lincoln National tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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