GL vs. SLF, WTW, PUK, PFG, CRBG, RYAN, EQH, AEG, EG, and KNSL
Should you be buying Globe Life stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Globe Life include Sun Life Financial (SLF), Willis Towers Watson Public (WTW), Prudential (PUK), Principal Financial Group (PFG), Corebridge Financial (CRBG), Ryan Specialty (RYAN), Equitable (EQH), Aegon (AEG), Everest Group (EG), and Kinsale Capital Group (KNSL). These companies are all part of the "insurance" industry.
Globe Life vs.
Sun Life Financial (NYSE:SLF) and Globe Life (NYSE:GL) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and valuation.
Globe Life has a consensus price target of $135.50, suggesting a potential upside of 10.74%. Given Globe Life's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Globe Life is more favorable than Sun Life Financial.
Sun Life Financial has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Globe Life has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
52.3% of Sun Life Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.6% of Globe Life shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Globe Life shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Sun Life Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.58 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Globe Life pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Sun Life Financial pays out 67.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Globe Life pays out 8.0% 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. Globe Life has raised its dividend for 19 consecutive years.
Sun Life Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Globe Life. Globe Life is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sun Life Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sun Life Financial received 424 more outperform votes than Globe Life when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.23% of users gave Sun Life Financial an outperform vote while only 40.12% of users gave Globe Life an outperform vote.
Globe Life has a net margin of 18.53% compared to Sun Life Financial's net margin of 8.08%. Globe Life's return on equity of 22.32% beat Sun Life Financial's return on equity.
In the previous week, Sun Life Financial had 5 more articles in the media than Globe Life. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Sun Life Financial and 19 mentions for Globe Life. Sun Life Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Globe Life's score of 0.93 indicating that Sun Life Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Globe Life beats Sun Life Financial on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:GL) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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