BNRE vs. AIZ, PNFP, STAG, STWD, CCCS, BPOP, ZION, CACC, WTFC, and FR
Should you be buying Brookfield Reinsurance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Reinsurance include Assurant (AIZ), Pinnacle Financial Partners (PNFP), STAG Industrial (STAG), Starwood Property Trust (STWD), CCC Intelligent Solutions (CCCS), Popular (BPOP), Zions Bancorporation, National Association (ZION), Credit Acceptance (CACC), Wintrust Financial (WTFC), and First Industrial Realty Trust (FR). 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 better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Assurant had 10 more articles in the media than Brookfield Reinsurance. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Assurant and 4 mentions for Brookfield Reinsurance. Brookfield Reinsurance's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Assurant's score of 0.55 indicating that Assurant is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Assurant has a beta of 0.53, indicating that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookfield Reinsurance has a beta of 1.55, indicating that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Assurant pays an annual dividend of $2.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Brookfield Reinsurance pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Assurant pays out 20.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brookfield Reinsurance pays out 110.3% 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 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.
Assurant has a net margin of 6.73% compared to Assurant's net margin of 0.08%. Brookfield Reinsurance's return on equity of 20.08% beat Assurant's return on equity.
Assurant received 285 more outperform votes than Brookfield Reinsurance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.58% 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 held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.2% of Brookfield Reinsurance shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Assurant shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Brookfield Reinsurance shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Assurant presently has a consensus price target of $200.25, indicating a potential upside of 14.04%. Given Brookfield Reinsurance's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Assurant is more favorable than Brookfield Reinsurance.
Summary
Assurant beats Brookfield Reinsurance on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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