AIZ vs. BNRE, CUBE, JEF, HLI, REXR, NLY, SEIC, FRT, JLL, and BSAC
Should you be buying Assurant stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Assurant include Brookfield Reinsurance (BNRE), CubeSmart (CUBE), Jefferies Financial Group (JEF), Houlihan Lokey (HLI), Rexford Industrial Realty (REXR), Annaly Capital Management (NLY), SEI Investments (SEIC), Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT), Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), and Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Brookfield Reinsurance (NYSE:BNRE) and Assurant (NYSE:AIZ) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends and profitability.
Assurant has a consensus target price of $199.25, indicating a potential upside of 12.86%. Given Brookfield Reinsurance's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Assurant is more favorable than Brookfield Reinsurance.
Brookfield Reinsurance pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Assurant pays an annual dividend of $2.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. 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 pays out 24.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Assurant has increased its dividend for 20 consecutive years. Assurant is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Assurant had 4 more articles in the media than Brookfield Reinsurance. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Assurant and 5 mentions for Brookfield Reinsurance. Brookfield Reinsurance's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Assurant's score of 0.28 indicating that Assurant is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Brookfield Reinsurance has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
Assurant has a net margin of 5.77% compared to Assurant's net margin of 0.07%. Brookfield Reinsurance's return on equity of 18.36% beat Assurant's return on equity.
Brookfield Reinsurance has a beta of 1.55, indicating that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Assurant has a beta of 0.53, indicating that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
7.2% of Brookfield Reinsurance shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of Assurant shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Brookfield Reinsurance shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Assurant shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Assurant beats Brookfield Reinsurance on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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