SLF vs. CB, MFC, EG, RYAN, EQH, KNSL, VOYA, BWIN, OSCR, and GSHD
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), Everest Group (EG), Ryan Specialty (RYAN), Equitable (EQH), Kinsale Capital Group (KNSL), Voya Financial (VOYA), The Baldwin Insurance Group (BWIN), Oscar Health (OSCR), and Goosehead Insurance (GSHD). These companies are all part of the "insurance" industry.
Sun Life Financial (NYSE:SLF) and Chubb (NYSE:CB) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, risk and community ranking.
Sun Life Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.35 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Chubb pays an annual dividend of $3.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Sun Life Financial pays out 60.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Chubb pays out 16.2% 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 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.
Chubb has a net margin of 18.14% compared to Sun Life Financial's net margin of 8.94%. Sun Life Financial's return on equity of 16.97% beat Chubb's return on equity.
Chubb received 225 more outperform votes than Sun Life Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.32% of users gave Chubb an outperform vote while only 62.40% of users gave Sun Life Financial an outperform vote.
Sun Life Financial has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chubb has a beta of 0.66, meaning that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Chubb had 43 more articles in the media than Sun Life Financial. MarketBeat recorded 56 mentions for Chubb and 13 mentions for Sun Life Financial. Chubb's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Sun Life Financial's score of 0.47 indicating that Chubb is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
52.3% of Sun Life Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.8% of Chubb shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Chubb shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Sun Life Financial currently has a consensus price target of $77.00, indicating a potential upside of 54.31%. Chubb has a consensus price target of $270.21, indicating a potential downside of 0.03%. Given Sun Life Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sun Life Financial is more favorable than Chubb.
Summary
Chubb beats Sun Life Financial on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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