PUK vs. SLF, CRBG, AEG, RGA, PRU, MFC, GL, PRI, VOYA, and MET
Should you be buying Prudential stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Prudential include Sun Life Financial (SLF), Corebridge Financial (CRBG), Aegon (AEG), Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), Prudential Financial (PRU), Manulife Financial (MFC), Globe Life (GL), Primerica (PRI), Voya Financial (VOYA), and MetLife (MET). These companies are all part of the "life insurance" industry.
Sun Life Financial (NYSE:SLF) and Prudential (NYSE:PUK) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability and community ranking.
Sun Life Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Prudential pays an annual dividend of $0.57 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Sun Life Financial pays out 59.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sun Life Financial has raised its dividend for 10 consecutive years and Prudential has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Sun Life Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
52.3% of Sun Life Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.9% of Prudential shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Prudential shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Sun Life Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Prudential.
Sun Life Financial has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Prudential has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sun Life Financial received 37 more outperform votes than Prudential when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.59% of users gave Prudential an outperform vote while only 62.36% of users gave Sun Life Financial an outperform vote.
Sun Life Financial has a net margin of 8.94% compared to Sun Life Financial's net margin of 0.00%. Prudential's return on equity of 16.97% beat Sun Life Financial's return on equity.
Sun Life Financial presently has a consensus target price of $77.00, suggesting a potential upside of 48.94%. Given Prudential's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Sun Life Financial is more favorable than Prudential.
In the previous week, Sun Life Financial had 10 more articles in the media than Prudential. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Sun Life Financial and 2 mentions for Prudential. Sun Life Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Prudential's score of 0.83 indicating that Prudential is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Sun Life Financial beats Prudential on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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