RGA vs. GL, AEG, CRBG, PRI, VOYA, JXN, FG, LNC, AEL, and PUK
Should you be buying Reinsurance Group of America stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Reinsurance Group of America include Globe Life (GL), Aegon (AEG), Corebridge Financial (CRBG), Primerica (PRI), Voya Financial (VOYA), Jackson Financial (JXN), F&G Annuities & Life (FG), Lincoln National (LNC), American Equity Investment Life (AEL), and Prudential (PUK). These companies are all part of the "life insurance" industry.
Globe Life (NYSE:GL) and Reinsurance Group of America (NYSE:RGA) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and valuation.
Globe Life presently has a consensus target price of $133.00, indicating a potential upside of 14.04%. Reinsurance Group of America has a consensus target price of $176.90, indicating a potential downside of 3.93%. Given Reinsurance Group of America's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Globe Life is more favorable than Reinsurance Group of America.
Globe Life has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Reinsurance Group of America. Globe Life is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Reinsurance Group of America, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Globe Life has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Reinsurance Group of America has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Globe Life has a net margin of 17.82% compared to Globe Life's net margin of 4.86%. Reinsurance Group of America's return on equity of 24.25% beat Globe Life's return on equity.
In the previous week, Globe Life had 17 more articles in the media than Reinsurance Group of America. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Globe Life and 9 mentions for Reinsurance Group of America. Globe Life's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Reinsurance Group of America's score of 0.34 indicating that Reinsurance Group of America is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Reinsurance Group of America received 269 more outperform votes than Globe Life when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.14% of users gave Reinsurance Group of America an outperform vote while only 35.38% of users gave Globe Life an outperform vote.
80.0% of Globe Life shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.8% of Reinsurance Group of America shares are held by institutional investors. 4.3% of Globe Life shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Reinsurance Group of America shares are held by company 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 pays an annual dividend of $0.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Reinsurance Group of America pays an annual dividend of $3.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Globe Life pays out 8.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Reinsurance Group of America pays out 25.3% 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 increased its dividend for 18 consecutive years and Reinsurance Group of America has increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years.
Summary
Reinsurance Group of America beats Globe Life on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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