VOYA vs. PRI, RGA, LNC, AEL, GL, FG, BHF, JXN, CRBG, and AEG
Should you be buying Voya Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Voya Financial include Primerica (PRI), Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), Lincoln National (LNC), American Equity Investment Life (AEL), Globe Life (GL), F&G Annuities & Life (FG), Brighthouse Financial (BHF), Jackson Financial (JXN), Corebridge Financial (CRBG), and Aegon (AEG). These companies are all part of the "life insurance" industry.
Voya Financial vs.
Primerica (NYSE:PRI) and Voya Financial (NYSE:VOYA) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
90.6% of Primerica shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.1% of Voya Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Primerica shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Voya Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Primerica has a net margin of 16.55% compared to Primerica's net margin of 10.53%. Voya Financial's return on equity of 28.48% beat Primerica's return on equity.
Primerica has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Voya Financial has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Primerica received 231 more outperform votes than Voya Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.48% of users gave Primerica an outperform vote while only 67.97% of users gave Voya Financial an outperform vote.
Primerica pays an annual dividend of $2.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Voya Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Primerica pays out 21.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Voya Financial pays out 28.4% 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. Primerica has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years and Voya Financial has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Primerica presently has a consensus price target of $216.20, suggesting a potential upside of 8.80%. Voya Financial has a consensus price target of $82.75, suggesting a potential upside of 21.53%. Given Primerica's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Voya Financial is more favorable than Primerica.
Voya Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Primerica. Voya Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Primerica, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Primerica and Primerica both had 6 articles in the media. Primerica's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Voya Financial's score of 0.32 indicating that Voya Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Primerica beats Voya Financial on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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