PRU vs. MET, MFC, SLF, PUK, CRBG, AEG, RGA, LYG, AMP, and ARES
Should you be buying Prudential Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Prudential Financial include MetLife (MET), Manulife Financial (MFC), Sun Life Financial (SLF), Prudential (PUK), Corebridge Financial (CRBG), Aegon (AEG), Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), Lloyds Banking Group (LYG), Ameriprise Financial (AMP), and Ares Management (ARES).
Prudential Financial (NYSE:PRU) and MetLife (NYSE:MET) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, community ranking, profitability and institutional ownership.
MetLife received 73 more outperform votes than Prudential Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.48% of users gave MetLife an outperform vote while only 65.05% of users gave Prudential Financial an outperform vote.
Prudential Financial pays an annual dividend of $5.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. MetLife pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Prudential Financial pays out 77.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. MetLife pays out 113.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Prudential Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, MetLife had 8 more articles in the media than Prudential Financial. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for MetLife and 15 mentions for Prudential Financial. Prudential Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat MetLife's score of 0.49 indicating that Prudential Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Prudential Financial has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MetLife has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Prudential Financial presently has a consensus price target of $111.42, indicating a potential upside of 0.83%. MetLife has a consensus price target of $79.23, indicating a potential upside of 12.51%. Given MetLife's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe MetLife is more favorable than Prudential Financial.
Prudential Financial has a net margin of 4.89% compared to MetLife's net margin of 2.36%. MetLife's return on equity of 19.48% beat Prudential Financial's return on equity.
56.8% of Prudential Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of MetLife shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Prudential Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of MetLife shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Prudential Financial has higher earnings, but lower revenue than MetLife. Prudential Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MetLife, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
MetLife beats Prudential Financial on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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