BRO vs. AON, AJG, EHTH, MMC, WTW, ERIE, RYAN, EQH, ACT, and CRVL
Should you be buying Brown & Brown stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brown & Brown include AON (AON), Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (AJG), eHealth (EHTH), Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC), Willis Towers Watson Public (WTW), Erie Indemnity (ERIE), Ryan Specialty (RYAN), Equitable (EQH), Enact (ACT), and CorVel (CRVL). These companies are all part of the "insurance agents, brokers, & service" industry.
AON (NYSE:AON) and Brown & Brown (NYSE:BRO) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
AON presently has a consensus target price of $321.86, suggesting a potential upside of 16.25%. Brown & Brown has a consensus target price of $88.80, suggesting a potential upside of 1.20%. Given Brown & Brown's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe AON is more favorable than Brown & Brown.
AON received 134 more outperform votes than Brown & Brown when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.16% of users gave AON an outperform vote while only 54.97% of users gave Brown & Brown an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Brown & Brown had 56 more articles in the media than AON. MarketBeat recorded 67 mentions for Brown & Brown and 11 mentions for AON. Brown & Brown's average media sentiment score of 0.39 beat AON's score of 0.04 indicating that AON is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AON has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brown & Brown has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Brown & Brown has a net margin of 21.09% compared to Brown & Brown's net margin of 19.04%. AON's return on equity of 16.43% beat Brown & Brown's return on equity.
86.1% of AON shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.0% of Brown & Brown shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of AON shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.0% of Brown & Brown shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
AON pays an annual dividend of $2.70 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Brown & Brown pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. AON pays out 21.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brown & Brown pays out 16.0% 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. AON has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years and Brown & Brown has increased its dividend for 30 consecutive years.
AON has higher revenue and earnings than Brown & Brown. AON is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brown & Brown, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
AON beats Brown & Brown on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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