UNM vs. PFG, Z, REXR, JEF, CUBE, EWBC, NLY, CPT, KNSL, and AIZ
Should you be buying Unum Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Unum Group include Principal Financial Group (PFG), Zillow Group (Z), Rexford Industrial Realty (REXR), Jefferies Financial Group (JEF), CubeSmart (CUBE), East West Bancorp (EWBC), Annaly Capital Management (NLY), Camden Property Trust (CPT), Kinsale Capital Group (KNSL), and Assurant (AIZ). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Principal Financial Group (NYSE:PFG) and Unum Group (NYSE:UNM) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and valuation.
Principal Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $2.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Unum Group pays an annual dividend of $1.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Principal Financial Group pays out 52.7% 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. Principal Financial Group has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Unum Group has raised its dividend for 15 consecutive years.
Principal Financial Group has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Unum Group has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
75.1% of Principal Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.6% of Unum Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Principal Financial Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Unum Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Unum Group had 9 more articles in the media than Principal Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Unum Group and 15 mentions for Principal Financial Group. Principal Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Unum Group's score of 0.27 indicating that Unum Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Unum Group received 378 more outperform votes than Principal Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 46.44% of users gave Unum Group an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Principal Financial Group an outperform vote.
Unum Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Principal Financial Group. Unum Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Principal Financial Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Principal Financial Group presently has a consensus price target of $80.30, suggesting a potential downside of 0.22%. Unum Group has a consensus price target of $57.38, suggesting a potential upside of 11.08%. Given Principal Financial Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Unum Group is more favorable than Principal Financial Group.
Unum Group has a net margin of 10.52% compared to Unum Group's net margin of 8.70%. Principal Financial Group's return on equity of 16.02% beat Unum Group's return on equity.
Summary
Unum Group beats Principal Financial Group on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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