PRI vs. UNM, LNC, AEL, CNO, NWLI, CIA, MET, AFL, PRU, and SLF
Should you be buying Primerica stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Primerica include Unum Group (UNM), Lincoln National (LNC), American Equity Investment Life (AEL), CNO Financial Group (CNO), National Western Life Group (NWLI), Citizens (CIA), MetLife (MET), Aflac (AFL), Prudential Financial (PRU), and Sun Life Financial (SLF). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Primerica (NYSE:PRI) and Unum Group (NYSE:UNM) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and community ranking.
Primerica received 434 more outperform votes than Unum Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.93% of users gave Primerica an outperform vote while only 46.44% of users gave Unum Group an outperform vote.
Primerica currently has a consensus price target of $245.50, suggesting a potential upside of 8.68%. Unum Group has a consensus price target of $57.38, suggesting a potential upside of 6.53%. Given Primerica's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Primerica is more favorable than Unum Group.
90.9% of Primerica shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.6% of Unum Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Primerica shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Unum Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Primerica has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Unum Group has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Primerica had 2 more articles in the media than Unum Group. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Primerica and 4 mentions for Unum Group. Unum Group's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Primerica's score of 1.06 indicating that Unum Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Unum Group has higher revenue and earnings than Primerica. Unum Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Primerica, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Primerica pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Unum Group pays an annual dividend of $1.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Primerica pays out 18.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Unum Group pays out 21.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Primerica has a net margin of 20.44% compared to Unum Group's net margin of 10.52%. Primerica's return on equity of 27.35% beat Unum Group's return on equity.
Summary
Primerica beats Unum Group on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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