CNA vs. PRU, RSA, EIG, TFG, PFG, GOCO, THG, MCG, ESNT, and FFX
Should you be buying Centrica stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Centrica include Prudential (PRU), RSA Insurance Group (RSA), Ei Group plc (EIG.L) (EIG), Tetragon Financial (TFG), Vanquis Banking Group (PFG), GoCo Group plc (GOCO.L) (GOCO), THG (THG), Mobico Group (MCG), Essentra (ESNT), and Fairfx Group (FFX). These companies are all part of the "insurance" industry.
Centrica vs.
Centrica (LON:CNA) and Prudential (LON:PRU) are both utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, earnings and profitability.
Centrica has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Prudential has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Prudential received 146 more outperform votes than Centrica when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.72% of users gave Prudential an outperform vote while only 58.07% of users gave Centrica an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Prudential had 7 more articles in the media than Centrica. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Prudential and 5 mentions for Centrica. Centrica's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Prudential's score of 0.04 indicating that Centrica is being referred to more favorably in the media.
54.2% of Centrica shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.0% of Prudential shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Centrica shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Prudential shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Prudential has a net margin of 7.99% compared to Centrica's net margin of 5.39%. Centrica's return on equity of 25.16% beat Prudential's return on equity.
Centrica pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Prudential pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Centrica pays out 19.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Prudential pays out 84.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Centrica is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Centrica currently has a consensus target price of GBX 167, indicating a potential upside of 13.03%. Prudential has a consensus target price of GBX 1,188, indicating a potential upside of 55.58%. Given Prudential's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Prudential is more favorable than Centrica.
Centrica has higher revenue and earnings than Prudential. Centrica is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Prudential, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Prudential beats Centrica on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:CNA) was last updated on 4/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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