PRU vs. MET, MFC, SLF, PUK, CRBG, AEG, RGA, LYG, ARES, and BK
Should you be buying Prudential Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Prudential Financial include MetLife (MET), Manulife Financial (MFC), Sun Life Financial (SLF), Prudential (PUK), Corebridge Financial (CRBG), Aegon (AEG), Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), Lloyds Banking Group (LYG), Ares Management (ARES), and Bank of New York Mellon (BK). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
MetLife (NYSE:MET) and Prudential Financial (NYSE:PRU) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, risk and dividends.
Prudential Financial has a net margin of 4.89% compared to Prudential Financial's net margin of 2.36%. Prudential Financial's return on equity of 19.48% beat MetLife's return on equity.
MetLife has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Prudential Financial has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
89.8% of MetLife shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.8% of Prudential Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of MetLife shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Prudential Financial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Prudential Financial had 4 more articles in the media than MetLife. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Prudential Financial and 17 mentions for MetLife. Prudential Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat MetLife's score of 0.66 indicating that MetLife is being referred to more favorably in the media.
MetLife currently has a consensus target price of $79.23, suggesting a potential upside of 14.94%. Prudential Financial has a consensus target price of $111.33, suggesting a potential upside of 3.48%. Given Prudential Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe MetLife is more favorable than Prudential Financial.
Prudential Financial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than MetLife. Prudential Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MetLife, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MetLife received 73 more outperform votes than Prudential Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.48% of users gave MetLife an outperform vote while only 65.10% of users gave Prudential Financial an outperform vote.
MetLife pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Prudential Financial pays an annual dividend of $5.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. MetLife pays out 113.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Prudential Financial pays out 77.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. MetLife has increased its dividend for 6 consecutive years and Prudential Financial has increased its dividend for 16 consecutive years. Prudential Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
MetLife beats Prudential Financial on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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