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Sun Life Financial (SLF) Competitors

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SLF vs. CB, MFC, PUK, WTW, CRBG, PFG, RYAN, EQH, AEG, 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), Prudential (PUK), Willis Towers Watson Public (WTW), Corebridge Financial (CRBG), Principal Financial Group (PFG), Ryan Specialty (RYAN), Equitable (EQH), Aegon (AEG), and Everest Group (EG). These companies are all part of the "insurance" industry.

Sun Life Financial vs. Its Competitors

Sun Life Financial (NYSE:SLF) and Chubb (NYSE:CB) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.

Chubb has a net margin of 15.05% compared to Sun Life Financial's net margin of 7.47%. Sun Life Financial's return on equity of 17.33% beat Chubb's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Sun Life Financial7.47% 17.33% 1.12%
Chubb 15.05%12.37%3.43%

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.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Sun Life FinancialOutperform Votes
494
62.37%
Underperform Votes
298
37.63%
ChubbOutperform Votes
733
62.86%
Underperform Votes
433
37.14%

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 insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Sun Life Financial$28.32B1.29$2.31B$3.9316.48
Chubb$55.75B2.07$9.27B$20.7813.87

In the previous week, Chubb had 24 more articles in the media than Sun Life Financial. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Chubb and 6 mentions for Sun Life Financial. Chubb's average media sentiment score of 1.42 beat Sun Life Financial's score of 0.90 indicating that Chubb is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Sun Life Financial
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Chubb
27 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Sun Life Financial currently has a consensus target price of $88.00, suggesting a potential upside of 35.84%. Chubb has a consensus target price of $307.53, suggesting a potential upside of 6.71%. Given Sun Life Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Sun Life Financial is more favorable than Chubb.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Sun Life Financial
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.80
Chubb
2 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.56

Sun Life Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.55 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Chubb pays an annual dividend of $3.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Sun Life Financial pays out 64.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Chubb pays out 18.7% 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. Sun Life Financial has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years and Chubb has increased its dividend for 31 consecutive years.

Sun Life Financial has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chubb has a beta of 0.54, indicating that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.

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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SLF vs. The Competition

MetricSun Life FinancialINS IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$36.13B$13.83B$11.71B$19.80B
Dividend Yield3.98%3.78%5.68%3.80%
P/E Ratio16.4813.5919.4827.15
Price / Sales1.291.5125.4332.74
Price / Cash14.018.2317.7417.51
Price / Book2.331.392.164.45
Net Income$2.31B$1.16B$1.01B$986.05M
7 Day Performance0.86%2.14%1.07%0.48%
1 Month Performance1.79%0.12%1.74%3.69%
1 Year Performance31.87%10.10%538.82%9.85%

Sun Life Financial Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SLF
Sun Life Financial
4.8269 of 5 stars
$65.11
+1.6%
$88.00
+35.2%
+33.6%$36.82B$28.32B16.6231,768
CB
Chubb
4.8672 of 5 stars
$286.20
-0.2%
$307.53
+7.5%
+8.9%$114.69B$56.73B12.6034,000Positive News
MFC
Manulife Financial
4.9245 of 5 stars
$31.19
+0.0%
$45.67
+46.4%
+21.8%$53.43B$44.71B15.0740,000Positive News
PUK
Prudential
3.3911 of 5 stars
$24.49
+2.2%
N/A+35.3%$31.88B$8.14B10.5514,500Gap Up
WTW
Willis Towers Watson Public
3.0085 of 5 stars
$297.83
+0.5%
$356.30
+19.6%
+15.7%$29.53B$9.81B-297.8346,600
CRBG
Corebridge Financial
4.2103 of 5 stars
$32.31
+0.8%
$37.00
+14.5%
+10.7%$17.76B$16.06B8.557,700Positive News
PFG
Principal Financial Group
2.8266 of 5 stars
$76.73
+1.1%
N/AN/A$17.20B$15.77B16.4319,300
RYAN
Ryan Specialty
3.9145 of 5 stars
$65.46
-0.6%
$75.58
+15.5%
+15.2%$17.18B$2.65B94.873,850
EQH
Equitable
4.1878 of 5 stars
$53.04
+2.8%
$61.67
+16.3%
+31.0%$16.12B$14.78B13.898,200Positive News
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AEG
Aegon
3.9481 of 5 stars
$7.02
+1.1%
N/A+7.8%$15.46B$19.52B7.3122,300
EG
Everest Group
4.7163 of 5 stars
$338.88
+1.3%
$398.09
+17.5%
-9.3%$14.41B$17.23B10.792,430Analyst Revision

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