SLF vs. CB, MFC, WTW, PUK, RYAN, CRBG, PFG, AEG, EQH, and EG
Should you be buying Sun Life Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sun Life Financial include Chubb (CB), Manulife Financial (MFC), Willis Towers Watson Public (WTW), Prudential (PUK), Ryan Specialty (RYAN), Corebridge Financial (CRBG), Principal Financial Group (PFG), Aegon (AEG), Equitable (EQH), and Everest Group (EG). These companies are all part of the "insurance" industry.
Sun Life Financial vs. Its Competitors
Chubb (NYSE:CB) 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 dividends, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and risk.
Chubb pays an annual dividend of $3.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Sun Life Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.55 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Chubb pays out 18.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sun Life Financial pays out 64.9% 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 increased its dividend for 31 consecutive years and Sun Life Financial has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Chubb had 34 more articles in the media than Sun Life Financial. MarketBeat recorded 39 mentions for Chubb and 5 mentions for Sun Life Financial. Chubb's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Sun Life Financial's score of 0.55 indicating that Chubb is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Chubb presently has a consensus price target of $307.53, suggesting a potential upside of 7.70%. Sun Life Financial has a consensus price target of $88.00, suggesting a potential upside of 36.02%. Given Sun Life Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Sun Life Financial is more favorable than Chubb.
Chubb has higher revenue and earnings than Sun Life Financial. Chubb is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sun Life Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
83.8% of Chubb shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.3% of Sun Life Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Chubb shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Chubb has a net margin of 16.63% compared to Sun Life Financial's net margin of 8.08%. Sun Life Financial's return on equity of 16.86% beat Chubb's return on equity.
Chubb has a beta of 0.54, indicating that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sun Life Financial has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Chubb received 239 more outperform votes than Sun Life Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.86% of users gave Chubb an outperform vote while only 62.37% of users gave Sun Life Financial an outperform vote.
Summary
Chubb beats Sun Life Financial on 16 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NYSE:SLF) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
