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CNO Financial Group (CNO) Competitors

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$37.52 -0.76 (-1.99%)
(As of 12/17/2024 ET)

CNO vs. UNM, PRI, LNC, CIA, AFL, MET, PRU, PFG, SUI, and EG

Should you be buying CNO Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CNO Financial Group include Unum Group (UNM), Primerica (PRI), Lincoln National (LNC), Citizens (CIA), Aflac (AFL), MetLife (MET), Prudential Financial (PRU), Principal Financial Group (PFG), Sun Communities (SUI), and Everest Group (EG). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

CNO Financial Group vs.

CNO Financial Group (NYSE:CNO) and Unum Group (NYSE:UNM) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, risk, valuation, earnings, community ranking and institutional ownership.

CNO Financial Group presently has a consensus target price of $35.80, indicating a potential downside of 4.58%. Unum Group has a consensus target price of $70.64, indicating a potential downside of 3.08%. Given Unum Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Unum Group is more favorable than CNO Financial Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
CNO Financial Group
1 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.20
Unum Group
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67

CNO Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Unum Group pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. CNO Financial Group pays out 25.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Unum Group pays out 18.2% 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. CNO Financial Group has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years and Unum Group has raised its dividend for 16 consecutive years. Unum Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

95.4% of CNO Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.6% of Unum Group shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of CNO 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, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Unum Group has a net margin of 13.76% compared to CNO Financial Group's net margin of 6.06%. CNO Financial Group's return on equity of 17.53% beat Unum Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
CNO Financial Group6.06% 17.53% 1.18%
Unum Group 13.76%15.21%2.49%

Unum Group received 17 more outperform votes than CNO Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.07% of users gave CNO Financial Group an outperform vote while only 47.25% of users gave Unum Group an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
CNO Financial GroupOutperform Votes
378
62.07%
Underperform Votes
231
37.93%
Unum GroupOutperform Votes
395
47.25%
Underperform Votes
441
52.75%

In the previous week, CNO Financial Group and CNO Financial Group both had 9 articles in the media. Unum Group's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat CNO Financial Group's score of 0.76 indicating that Unum Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
CNO Financial Group
4 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Unum Group
7 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
CNO Financial Group$4.52B0.86$276.50M$2.4815.13
Unum Group$12.71B1.05$1.28B$9.247.89

CNO Financial Group has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Unum Group has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Unum Group beats CNO Financial Group on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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CNO vs. The Competition

MetricCNO Financial GroupAccident & health insurance IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$3.87B$23.00B$10.62B$19.60B
Dividend Yield1.67%2.39%10.21%3.51%
P/E Ratio15.139.7435.1843.90
Price / Sales0.861.613,096.3717.45
Price / Cash12.0411.0629.8421.72
Price / Book1.901.952.775.46
Net Income$276.50M$1.71B$1.03B$986.21M
7 Day Performance-0.79%-1.22%-1.27%-2.15%
1 Month Performance-3.67%-4.44%-0.04%1.28%
1 Year Performance42.39%27.22%15.72%16.45%

CNO Financial Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CNO
CNO Financial Group
4.2215 of 5 stars
$37.52
-2.0%
$35.80
-4.6%
+42.4%$3.95B$4.52B15.133,500
UNM
Unum Group
4.724 of 5 stars
$73.97
+0.2%
$70.64
-4.5%
+67.3%$13.51B$12.71B7.9510,812Positive News
PRI
Primerica
4.2749 of 5 stars
$279.70
-0.5%
$293.50
+4.9%
+33.5%$9.33B$3.07B21.393,450
LNC
Lincoln National
4.8412 of 5 stars
$32.88
-0.2%
$33.25
+1.1%
+16.7%$5.60B$11.65B23.5411,024
CIA
Citizens
0.9374 of 5 stars
$4.21
+1.7%
N/A+39.9%$210.11M$248.38M9.63220
AFL
Aflac
4.3561 of 5 stars
$104.28
-0.2%
$98.73
-5.3%
+27.5%$57.93B$18.70B15.7412,785Positive News
MET
MetLife
4.9362 of 5 stars
$82.60
-0.5%
$88.62
+7.3%
+22.4%$57.19B$70.55B16.7345,000
PRU
Prudential Financial
4.9556 of 5 stars
$120.69
+0.2%
$126.33
+4.7%
+14.5%$42.97B$50.89B10.7140,658Positive News
PFG
Principal Financial Group
3.9065 of 5 stars
$78.74
-0.2%
$84.75
+7.6%
-1.2%$18.01B$13.67B-87.6819,800Positive News
SUI
Sun Communities
4.7005 of 5 stars
$123.11
+0.7%
$137.08
+11.3%
-8.3%$15.68B$3.22B65.706,780News Coverage
EG
Everest Group
4.7977 of 5 stars
$358.33
-1.2%
$430.00
+20.0%
-0.3%$15.40B$14.59B5.682,844Positive News

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This page (NYSE:CNO) was last updated on 12/18/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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