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PUK vs. CB, MFC, SLF, WTW, CRBG, PFG, BNT, EQH, AEG, and RYAN

Should you be buying Prudential Public stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Prudential Public include Chubb (CB), Manulife Financial (MFC), Sun Life Financial (SLF), Willis Towers Watson Public (WTW), Corebridge Financial (CRBG), Principal Financial Group (PFG), Brookfield Wealth Solutions (BNT), Equitable (EQH), Aegon (AEG), and Ryan Specialty (RYAN). These companies are all part of the "insurance" industry.

Prudential Public vs. Its Competitors

Prudential Public (NYSE:PUK) and Chubb (NYSE:CB) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Prudential Public has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chubb has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Chubb has a net margin of 16.08% compared to Prudential Public's net margin of 0.00%. Chubb's return on equity of 12.34% beat Prudential Public's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Prudential PublicN/A N/A N/A
Chubb 16.08%12.34%3.47%

1.9% of Prudential Public shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.8% of Chubb shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Prudential Public shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Chubb shares are owned by 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.

Chubb has higher revenue and earnings than Prudential Public. Prudential Public is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chubb, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Prudential Public$16.66B2.15$2.29B$2.3211.99
Chubb$55.75B1.95$9.27B$22.6712.04

Prudential Public pays an annual dividend of $0.29 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Chubb pays an annual dividend of $3.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Prudential Public pays out 12.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Chubb pays out 17.1% 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. Chubb has raised its dividend for 31 consecutive years. Chubb is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Chubb has a consensus target price of $303.06, indicating a potential upside of 11.02%. Given Chubb's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Chubb is more favorable than Prudential Public.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Prudential Public
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Chubb
1 Sell rating(s)
11 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.42

In the previous week, Chubb had 35 more articles in the media than Prudential Public. MarketBeat recorded 39 mentions for Chubb and 4 mentions for Prudential Public. Chubb's average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat Prudential Public's score of 0.47 indicating that Chubb is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Prudential Public
1 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Chubb
33 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Chubb beats Prudential Public on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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PUK vs. The Competition

MetricPrudential PublicINS IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$35.78B$21.12B$12.67B$21.51B
Dividend Yield1.03%2.57%5.42%3.49%
P/E Ratio11.9914.06244.6629.96
Price / Sales2.152.4930.9351.24
Price / Cash15.2717.3322.2424.77
Price / Book1.973.792.334.55
Net Income$2.29B$1.62B$1.01B$999.02M
7 Day Performance0.04%-0.61%0.74%1.94%
1 Month Performance4.37%-0.89%3.40%5.18%
1 Year Performance67.17%17.61%542.01%14.44%

Prudential Public Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PUK
Prudential Public
3.3691 of 5 stars
$27.83
+2.8%
N/A+63.7%$35.78B$16.66B11.9915,412
CB
Chubb
4.9719 of 5 stars
$277.63
+0.1%
$302.00
+8.8%
-6.6%$110.59B$55.75B12.2543,000Positive News
Analyst Forecast
MFC
Manulife Financial
4.922 of 5 stars
$30.77
+0.3%
$48.50
+57.6%
+11.3%$52.08B$38.90B13.7337,000Positive News
Short Interest ↓
SLF
Sun Life Financial
4.8292 of 5 stars
$58.47
+1.3%
$88.00
+50.5%
+4.0%$32.43B$28.32B14.4731,768Positive News
WTW
Willis Towers Watson Public
3.9318 of 5 stars
$332.23
+0.9%
$362.92
+9.2%
+12.5%$32.12B$9.93B227.5648,900Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
CRBG
Corebridge Financial
4.8032 of 5 stars
$33.62
-0.2%
$40.80
+21.4%
+15.4%$18.14B$19.58B-55.115,200Positive News
PFG
Principal Financial Group
3.2781 of 5 stars
$79.71
-0.3%
N/AN/A$17.82B$16.13B16.0419,700
BNT
Brookfield Wealth Solutions
0.4575 of 5 stars
$66.35
-0.3%
N/AN/A$16.01B$14.10B195.155,000News Coverage
Positive News
EQH
Equitable
4.4491 of 5 stars
$53.16
-0.4%
$64.90
+22.1%
+29.5%$15.99B$12.44B42.878,000Positive News
Analyst Forecast
AEG
Aegon
4.4939 of 5 stars
$7.59
+0.9%
N/A+28.0%$15.09B$10.65B7.9023,123Short Interest ↓
RYAN
Ryan Specialty
4.8596 of 5 stars
$54.12
-0.5%
$74.83
+38.3%
-18.5%$14.34B$2.52B154.625,250News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
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