GL vs. SLF, PUK, WTW, CRBG, RYAN, PFG, EQH, AEG, EG, and BNT
Should you be buying Globe Life stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Globe Life include Sun Life Financial (SLF), Prudential Public (PUK), Willis Towers Watson Public (WTW), Corebridge Financial (CRBG), Ryan Specialty (RYAN), Principal Financial Group (PFG), Equitable (EQH), Aegon (AEG), Everest Group (EG), and Brookfield Wealth Solutions (BNT). These companies are all part of the "insurance" industry.
Globe Life vs. Its Competitors
Globe Life (NYSE:GL) and Sun Life Financial (NYSE:SLF) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and risk.
Globe Life presently has a consensus target price of $137.73, suggesting a potential upside of 14.53%. Sun Life Financial has a consensus target price of $88.00, suggesting a potential upside of 36.16%. Given Sun Life Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sun Life Financial is more favorable than Globe Life.
Sun Life Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Globe Life. Globe Life is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sun Life Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Globe Life has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sun Life Financial has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Globe Life pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Sun Life Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.55 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Globe Life pays out 8.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sun Life Financial pays out 64.9% 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. Globe Life has raised its dividend for 20 consecutive years and Sun Life Financial has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years.
81.6% of Globe Life shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.3% of Sun Life Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Globe Life shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Globe Life has a net margin of 18.33% compared to Sun Life Financial's net margin of 7.47%. Globe Life's return on equity of 21.44% beat Sun Life Financial's return on equity.
In the previous week, Globe Life had 13 more articles in the media than Sun Life Financial. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Globe Life and 5 mentions for Sun Life Financial. Sun Life Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Globe Life's score of 0.29 indicating that Sun Life Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Globe Life beats Sun Life Financial on 12 of the 20 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:GL) was last updated on 7/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
