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AFL vs. MET, PRU, UNM, PRI, LNC, CNO, CIA, PFG, MS, and AXP

Should you be buying Aflac stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aflac include MetLife (MET), Prudential Financial (PRU), Unum Group (UNM), Primerica (PRI), Lincoln National (LNC), CNO Financial Group (CNO), Citizens (CIA), Principal Financial Group (PFG), Morgan Stanley (MS), and American Express (AXP). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

Aflac vs.

Aflac (NYSE:AFL) and MetLife (NYSE:MET) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, risk and dividends.

Aflac currently has a consensus price target of $102.86, suggesting a potential upside of 0.80%. MetLife has a consensus price target of $92.58, suggesting a potential upside of 14.28%. Given MetLife's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe MetLife is more favorable than Aflac.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Aflac
2 Sell rating(s)
10 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
MetLife
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
11 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.92

Aflac has higher earnings, but lower revenue than MetLife. Aflac is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MetLife, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Aflac$18.93B3.00$5.44B$9.6010.63
MetLife$70.99B0.79$4.43B$5.9713.57

67.4% of Aflac shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.0% of MetLife shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Aflac shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of MetLife shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Aflac pays an annual dividend of $2.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. MetLife pays an annual dividend of $2.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Aflac pays out 24.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MetLife pays out 36.5% 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. Aflac has raised its dividend for 44 consecutive years and MetLife has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years.

Aflac has a net margin of 28.76% compared to MetLife's net margin of 6.19%. MetLife's return on equity of 20.42% beat Aflac's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Aflac28.76% 16.20% 3.32%
MetLife 6.19%20.42%0.86%

Aflac has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MetLife has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.

MetLife received 377 more outperform votes than Aflac when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.80% of users gave MetLife an outperform vote while only 56.01% of users gave Aflac an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
AflacOutperform Votes
578
56.01%
Underperform Votes
454
43.99%
MetLifeOutperform Votes
955
73.80%
Underperform Votes
339
26.20%

In the previous week, MetLife had 5 more articles in the media than Aflac. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for MetLife and 24 mentions for Aflac. Aflac's average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat MetLife's score of 1.06 indicating that Aflac is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Aflac
19 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
MetLife
21 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

MetLife beats Aflac on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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AFL vs. The Competition

MetricAflacAccident & health insurance IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$56.69B$23.41B$11.58B$20.02B
Dividend Yield2.22%2.35%5.38%3.65%
P/E Ratio10.638.3524.1334.88
Price / Sales3.001.5426.4315.60
Price / Cash13.439.9018.1520.85
Price / Book2.171.702.594.92
Net Income$5.44B$2.30B$1.03B$1.02B
7 Day Performance-1.37%-1.44%-1.41%-1.05%
1 Month Performance-4.06%-0.43%0.19%-1.39%
1 Year Performance28.75%26.89%15.13%13.93%

Aflac Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AFL
Aflac
4.4871 of 5 stars
$102.04
-2.1%
$102.86
+0.8%
+28.7%$56.69B$18.93B10.6312,785Analyst Forecast
Positive News
MET
MetLife
4.9956 of 5 stars
$81.78
-0.7%
$92.17
+12.7%
+17.5%$56.63B$70.99B13.7045,000Analyst Forecast
Positive News
PRU
Prudential Financial
4.9608 of 5 stars
$111.54
-0.3%
$125.46
+12.5%
+1.7%$39.71B$68.05B14.9340,658Ex-Dividend
Analyst Forecast
Positive News
UNM
Unum Group
4.7692 of 5 stars
$74.42
-1.3%
$80.33
+7.9%
+51.2%$13.59B$12.89B7.8610,812Analyst Forecast
Buyback Announcement
Analyst Revision
Positive News
PRI
Primerica
4.7765 of 5 stars
$281.29
-1.0%
$310.43
+10.4%
+10.7%$9.39B$2.82B21.493,450Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
LNC
Lincoln National
4.8476 of 5 stars
$39.09
-0.4%
$35.40
-9.4%
+39.2%$6.66B$18.44B2.1311,024Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
CNO
CNO Financial Group
4.5406 of 5 stars
$41.42
-0.2%
$40.50
-2.2%
+48.5%$4.27B$4.45B11.073,500Insider Trade
CIA
Citizens
1.3004 of 5 stars
$5.39
-4.4%
N/A+79.1%$269.02M$240.68M12.53220
PFG
Principal Financial Group
3.9823 of 5 stars
$85.65
-1.5%
$85.54
-0.1%
+5.9%$19.59B$16.13B12.8219,800Analyst Forecast
Positive News
MS
Morgan Stanley
4.5623 of 5 stars
$139.19
+1.7%
$131.27
-5.7%
+54.0%$224.24B$107.29B17.5380,000
AXP
American Express
4.587 of 5 stars
$311.37
+1.3%
$296.38
-4.8%
+40.0%$219.34B$65.95B22.2274,600Positive News

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This page (NYSE:AFL) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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