AIZ vs. BNRE, HLI, NLY, SEIC, CUBE, JEF, JLL, REXR, BSAC, and FRT
Should you be buying Assurant stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Assurant include Brookfield Reinsurance (BNRE), Houlihan Lokey (HLI), Annaly Capital Management (NLY), SEI Investments (SEIC), CubeSmart (CUBE), Jefferies Financial Group (JEF), Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), Rexford Industrial Realty (REXR), Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC), and Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Assurant (NYSE:AIZ) and Brookfield Reinsurance (NYSE:BNRE) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
Assurant has a net margin of 5.77% compared to Brookfield Reinsurance's net margin of 0.07%. Assurant's return on equity of 18.36% beat Brookfield Reinsurance's return on equity.
In the previous week, Assurant had 4 more articles in the media than Brookfield Reinsurance. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Assurant and 2 mentions for Brookfield Reinsurance. Assurant's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Brookfield Reinsurance's score of 0.73 indicating that Assurant is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Assurant received 285 more outperform votes than Brookfield Reinsurance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.69% of users gave Assurant an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Brookfield Reinsurance an outperform vote.
Brookfield Reinsurance has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Assurant. Assurant is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookfield Reinsurance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
92.7% of Assurant shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.2% of Brookfield Reinsurance shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Assurant shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Brookfield Reinsurance shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Assurant pays an annual dividend of $2.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Brookfield Reinsurance pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Assurant pays out 24.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brookfield Reinsurance pays out 114.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Assurant is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Assurant presently has a consensus target price of $192.20, indicating a potential upside of 9.43%. Given Assurant's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Assurant is more favorable than Brookfield Reinsurance.
Assurant has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookfield Reinsurance has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Assurant beats Brookfield Reinsurance on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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