CNO vs. AVAL, TCBI, TFSL, PPBI, AB, RONI, FSCO, OXLC, BHFAO, and BHFAN
Should you be buying CNO Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CNO Financial Group include Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores (AVAL), Texas Capital Bancshares (TCBI), TFS Financial (TFSL), Pacific Premier Bancorp (PPBI), AllianceBernstein (AB), Rice Acquisition Corp. II (RONI), FS Credit Opportunities (FSCO), Oxford Lane Capital (OXLC), Brighthouse Financial (BHFAO), and Brighthouse Financial (BHFAN).
Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores (NYSE:AVAL) and CNO Financial Group (NYSE:CNO) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CNO Financial Group has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CNO Financial Group has a consensus price target of $27.50, indicating a potential upside of 4.17%. Given Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe CNO Financial Group is more favorable than Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores.
0.2% of Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.4% of CNO Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of CNO Financial Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, CNO Financial Group had 3 more articles in the media than Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for CNO Financial Group and 3 mentions for Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores. CNO Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores' score of 0.50 indicating that Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CNO Financial Group has a net margin of 6.67% compared to CNO Financial Group's net margin of 1.00%. Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores' return on equity of 17.51% beat CNO Financial Group's return on equity.
Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. CNO Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores pays out 166.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CNO Financial Group pays out 24.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CNO Financial Group has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years.
CNO Financial Group received 195 more outperform votes than Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.17% of users gave CNO Financial Group an outperform vote while only 51.59% of users gave Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores an outperform vote.
CNO Financial Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores. CNO Financial Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
CNO Financial Group beats Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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