PUK vs. SLF, PRU, CRBG, AEG, MFC, RGA, GL, PRI, MET, and NWG
Should you be buying Prudential stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Prudential include Sun Life Financial (SLF), Prudential Financial (PRU), Corebridge Financial (CRBG), Aegon (AEG), Manulife Financial (MFC), Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), Globe Life (GL), Primerica (PRI), MetLife (MET), and NatWest Group (NWG). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Prudential (NYSE:PUK) and Sun Life Financial (NYSE:SLF) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, risk, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.
Sun Life Financial has a consensus price target of $77.00, suggesting a potential upside of 41.21%. Given Sun Life Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Sun Life Financial is more favorable than Prudential.
Prudential has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sun Life Financial has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sun Life Financial received 37 more outperform votes than Prudential when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.67% of users gave Prudential an outperform vote while only 62.36% of users gave Sun Life Financial an outperform vote.
Sun Life Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Prudential.
Sun Life Financial has a net margin of 7.79% compared to Prudential's net margin of 0.00%. Sun Life Financial's return on equity of 17.30% beat Prudential's return on equity.
1.9% of Prudential shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.0% of Sun Life Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Prudential shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Prudential had 3 more articles in the media than Sun Life Financial. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Prudential and 4 mentions for Sun Life Financial. Sun Life Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Prudential's score of 0.26 indicating that Sun Life Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Prudential pays an annual dividend of $0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Sun Life Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Sun Life Financial pays out 59.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Sun Life Financial beats Prudential on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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