PRU vs. AFL, MET, UNM, PRI, LNC, CNO, NWLI, CIA, MFC, and SLF
Should you be buying Prudential Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Prudential Financial include Aflac (AFL), MetLife (MET), Unum Group (UNM), Primerica (PRI), Lincoln National (LNC), CNO Financial Group (CNO), National Western Life Group (NWLI), Citizens (CIA), Manulife Financial (MFC), and Sun Life Financial (SLF). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Prudential Financial (NYSE:PRU) and Aflac (NYSE:AFL) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, profitability and earnings.
Prudential Financial pays an annual dividend of $5.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Aflac pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Prudential Financial pays out 88.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Aflac pays out 22.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Aflac has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Prudential Financial. Aflac is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Prudential Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
56.8% of Prudential Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.4% of Aflac shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Prudential Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Aflac shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Prudential Financial currently has a consensus target price of $116.92, indicating a potential downside of 5.81%. Aflac has a consensus target price of $86.46, indicating a potential downside of 8.82%. Given Prudential Financial's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Prudential Financial is more favorable than Aflac.
Prudential Financial has a beta of 1.34, suggesting that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aflac has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Aflac had 1 more articles in the media than Prudential Financial. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Aflac and 21 mentions for Prudential Financial. Aflac's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Prudential Financial's score of 0.64 indicating that Aflac is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Prudential Financial received 276 more outperform votes than Aflac when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.81% of users gave Prudential Financial an outperform vote while only 57.19% of users gave Aflac an outperform vote.
Aflac has a net margin of 27.67% compared to Prudential Financial's net margin of 3.76%. Aflac's return on equity of 16.88% beat Prudential Financial's return on equity.
Summary
Aflac beats Prudential Financial on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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