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CIA vs. AFL, MET, PRU, UNM, PRI, LNC, CNO, AAME, MFC, and SLF

Should you be buying Citizens stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Citizens include Aflac (AFL), MetLife (MET), Prudential Financial (PRU), Unum Group (UNM), Primerica (PRI), Lincoln National (LNC), CNO Financial Group (CNO), Atlantic American (AAME), Manulife Financial (MFC), and Sun Life Financial (SLF). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

Citizens vs.

Citizens (NYSE:CIA) and Aflac (NYSE:AFL) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.

Citizens has a beta of 0.26, indicating that its stock price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aflac has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.

13.7% of Citizens shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.4% of Aflac shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Citizens shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Aflac shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Aflac has a net margin of 28.76% compared to Citizens' net margin of 8.87%. Aflac's return on equity of 16.20% beat Citizens' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Citizens8.87% 11.50% 1.31%
Aflac 28.76%16.20%3.32%

Aflac received 361 more outperform votes than Citizens when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.92% of users gave Citizens an outperform vote while only 55.83% of users gave Aflac an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
CitizensOutperform Votes
218
58.92%
Underperform Votes
152
41.08%
AflacOutperform Votes
579
55.83%
Underperform Votes
458
44.17%

Aflac has a consensus price target of $103.93, indicating a potential downside of 3.73%. Given Aflac's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Aflac is more favorable than Citizens.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Citizens
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
4.00
Aflac
2 Sell rating(s)
10 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Citizens$245.00M0.87$24.44M$0.2914.79
Aflac$19.13B3.08$5.44B$9.6011.25

In the previous week, Aflac had 27 more articles in the media than Citizens. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Aflac and 1 mentions for Citizens. Aflac's average media sentiment score of 1.41 beat Citizens' score of -0.67 indicating that Aflac is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Citizens
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Negative
Aflac
24 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Aflac beats Citizens on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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CIA vs. The Competition

MetricCitizensLife insurance IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$214.10M$20.90B$11.13B$18.91B
Dividend YieldN/A3.46%5.90%4.13%
P/E Ratio9.988.0022.0732.57
Price / Sales0.871.2725.9828.52
Price / Cash8.459.7017.5917.53
Price / Book1.241.352.644.45
Net Income$24.44M$1.64B$1.03B$1.02B
7 Day Performance-1.27%2.88%2.63%3.51%
1 Month Performance-11.71%-5.44%-2.19%-4.90%
1 Year Performance106.25%13.23%533.35%4.62%

Citizens Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CIA
Citizens
N/A$4.29
+0.7%
N/A+114.5%$214.10M$245.00M9.98220
AFL
Aflac
4.5836 of 5 stars
$108.52
+1.6%
$103.93
-4.2%
+28.9%$59.23B$19.13B11.3012,400Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
MET
MetLife
4.9017 of 5 stars
$72.92
+2.1%
$92.46
+26.8%
+4.6%$49.68B$69.90B12.2145,000Upcoming Earnings
Dividend Increase
Positive News
PRU
Prudential Financial
4.7827 of 5 stars
$101.49
+2.7%
$122.77
+21.0%
-7.5%$35.97B$70.65B13.5939,900Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
UNM
Unum Group
4.8751 of 5 stars
$76.84
+2.1%
$88.36
+15.0%
+53.0%$13.58B$12.79B8.1110,900Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Revision
Positive News
PRI
Primerica
4.4606 of 5 stars
$257.62
+2.2%
$309.14
+20.0%
+19.7%$8.53B$3.09B18.743,440Positive News
LNC
Lincoln National
4.915 of 5 stars
$29.97
+1.6%
$35.91
+19.8%
+13.5%$5.11B$17.99B1.6310,800Positive News
CNO
CNO Financial Group
4.0594 of 5 stars
$37.93
+3.1%
$41.00
+8.1%
+49.8%$3.80B$4.45B10.143,350Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
AAME
Atlantic American
0.5713 of 5 stars
$1.38
+4.3%
N/A-22.2%$28.10M$188.23M-3.94140Gap Up
High Trading Volume
MFC
Manulife Financial
4.8729 of 5 stars
$28.80
+2.7%
$45.50
+58.0%
+29.5%$49.49B$45.58B13.9140,000Positive News
Gap Up
SLF
Sun Life Financial
3.8165 of 5 stars
$56.62
+2.1%
N/A+13.7%$32.32B$28.68B14.7429,200

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This page (NYSE:CIA) was last updated on 4/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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